Home » Search Center » Results: Down Hearted Blues
Results for "Down Hearted Blues"
Down Hearted Blues
By Bessie Smith
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: Downhearted Blues; Gulf Coast Blues;
Bessie Smith: Down Hearted Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...