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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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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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