Gimme a Pigfoot - Single
Bessie Smith
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Gimme a Pigfoot (Digitally Remastered) | Bessie Smith | 3:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Biography
Born: April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, TN
Genre: Blues
Years Active: '20s, '30s
The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of "The Empress of the Blues." Even on her first records in 1923, her passionate voice overcame the primitive recording quality of the day and still communicates easily to today's listeners (which is not true of any other singer from that early period). At a time when the blues...
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