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Chattanooga Gal

By Bessie Smith

Label: Columbia
Released: 2005

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Article: Book Review

Writer Chris Albertson Revives Bessie Smith Again

by Daniel Kassell
April 16, 2004

BessieChris Albertson Yale University Press 336 pages 45 illustrations ISBN: 0300099029 Reprising his 1972 biography Bessie, Jazz Journalist and long time contributor to Stereo review Chris Albertson has added to the lore of the blues. Historically and culturally the first successful woman entertainer in ...

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Down Hearted Blues

By Bessie Smith

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: Downhearted Blues; Gulf Coast Blues;

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Article: Album Review

Bessie Smith: Down Hearted Blues

Read "Down Hearted Blues" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 25, 2003

Bessie Smith perished in an automobile accident outside of Clarksdale Mississippi in 1937. Almost seventy years later, the "Empress of the Blues" continues to loom large in the American psyche. She, along with Louis Armstrong, defined--no, originated--the craft of jazz vocals. Naxos Jazz Legends begins its documentation of the Smith legend with a release of some ...

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