Bluebelle

It makes sense that a blues singer named Bessie Mae Smith would want to find another name to record under. It is sort of the equivalent of being a singer/songwriter named "Bob McDylan." Bessie Mae Smith carried things to extremes, however, recording not only as Blue Belle but under a variety of other made-up names, one of which was Bessie Mae Smith according to some branches of the blues detective society. That's right, Bessie Mae Smith might not have been the real name of this St. Louis singer from the '20s, either, but it does sound much more like a real name than some of th...