Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith

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Latest Release

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  • Yellow Dog Blues
  • May 2024
  • 1 Song

Top Songs

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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out [78rpm Version]
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Devil's Gonna Get You
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Do Your Duty
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Graveyard Dream Blues
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Haunted House Blues

Albums

  • Blue Notes – A Blues Survey from 1920-1960, vol. 1

    Mar 2024 • 3 songs

  • Just at the Turn of the Tide

    Apr 2023 • 23 songs

  • Icetea

    Mar 2023 • 23 songs

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Bessie Smith

Biography

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 were in and most vocalists (particularly vaudevillians) were being dubbed "blues singers," Bessie Smith simply had no competition. Back in 1912, Bessie Smith sang in the same ...
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