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Bessie Smith
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Down Hearted Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Gulf Coat Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Jailhouse Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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St. Louis Gal | Bessie Smith | 3:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Aggravatin' Papa | Bessie Smith | 3:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Baby Won't You Please Come Home | Bessie Smith | 2:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Chicago Bound Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Aint Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do | Bessie Smith | 3:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Any Woman's Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Easy Come Easy Go Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down | Bessie Smith | 3:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Hateful Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Careless Love Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:26 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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New Gulf Coast Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle | Bessie Smith | 3:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Yellow Dog Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I Ain't Got Nobody | Bessie Smith | 3:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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What's the Matter Now | Bessie Smith | 2:47 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Baby Doll | Bessie Smith | 2:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Hard Driving Papa | Bessie Smith | 2:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Gin House Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Lost Your Head Blues | Bessie Smith | 2:55 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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After You've Gone | Bessie Smith | 2:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Backwater Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Preachin' the Blues | Bessie Smith | 2:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Alexander's Ragtime Band | Bessie Smith | 2:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Bessie Smith | 3:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Mean Old Bed Bug Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair | Bessie Smith | 3:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Thinking Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried In My Grave | Bessie Smith | 2:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Empty Bed Blues Pt. 1 | Bessie Smith | 2:55 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Empty Bed Blues Pt. 2 | Bessie Smith | 3:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Spider Man Blues | Bessie Smith | 3:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Slow and Easy Man | Bessie Smith | 2:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I'm Wild About That Thing | Bessie Smith | 2:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You've Got to Give Me Some | Bessie Smith | 2:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out | Bessie Smith | 2:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Wasted Life Blues | Bessie Smith | 2:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Don't Cry Baby | Bessie Smith | 2:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Baby Have Pity On Me | Bessie Smith | 3:10 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Hustlin' Dan | Bessie Smith | 3:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Black Mountain Blues | Bessie Smith | 2:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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In the House Blues | Bessie Smith | 2:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Blue Blue | Bessie Smith | 3:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I Need a Little Dugar In My Bowl | Bessie Smith | 2:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Safety Mama | Bessie Smith | 3:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Do Your Duty | Bessie Smith | 3:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Gimme a Pig Foot and a Bottle of Beer | Bessie Smith | 3:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 49 Songs |
Customer Reviews
The Greatest of All Classic Blues Singers
Bill Wyman, fomer Rolling Stones bassist, published an exceptional book entitled Blues Odyssey: A Journey to Music's Heart and Soul, in which he dubbed Bessie Smith the Greatest of All Classic Blues Singers. He's probably right and this is a very nice collection for any serious blues collector. Bessie stood around 6 ft tall and 200 pounds - imagine her singing in the 1920s (sometimes without a microphone) and you get a great sense of blues history. "Down Hearted Blues" and "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" are exceptional, but I think her version of the Jimmy Cox tune "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" compares well to anybody else. While $20 to buy all these tunes might be pricey for you, if you pick and choose among your favorites you won't go wrong.
amazing classic
bessie smith was the spectacle of her day, bringing the blues to the airwaves of the 20s.
Old
All I know is that Billie Holiday was influenced by her, so she must be old.
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...
Full BioTop Albums and Songs By Bessie Smith
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St. Louis Blues (78rpm Version) | The Essential Bessie Smith | 3:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out | The Essential Bessie Smith | 2:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Me and My Gin | Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith | 2:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Down Hearted Blues | Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith | 3:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find | The Essential Bessie Smith | 2:58 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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St. Louis Blues | Bessie Smith: The Collection | 3:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Need a Little Sugar In My Bowl | Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith | 2:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Careless Love | Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith | 3:23 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Backwater Blues | Greatest Hits | 3:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Backwater Blues | Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith | 3:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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- Genres: Blues, Music, Jazz, Trad Jazz, Chicago Blues
- Released: Jun 21, 2005
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