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Forever the 'Empress Of The Blues', Bessie Smith was and always will remain one of the pioneering superstars of black American music.
Throughout the 1920s, Bessie had few peers as a blues woman, and fewer still who could match the sales that her long string of 78s racked up. With one or sometimes two new releases a month, it would have been hard for anyone to catch her. The quality of those releases made it almost impossible.
Bessie began recording in the 'acoustic' era but was one of the first artists to record using the new electrical process that was introduced in 1925. This Jasmine CD release brings you as many of Bessie's first year of electrical recordings as a) have survived and b) they could ft into one collection.
Tracklist
Cake Walking Babies (From Home) - Fletcher Henderson's Hot Six / The
Yellow Dog Blues - Fletcher Henderson's Hot Six / Soft Pedal Blues / Dixie Flyer
Blues / Nashville Woman's Blues / Careless Love / J C Holmes Blues / I Ain't
Gonna Play No Second Fiddle / He's Gone Blues / Nobody's Blues But Mine -
Bessie Smith And Her Band / I Ain't Got Nobody And Nobody Cares For Me -
Bessie Smith And Her Band / New Gulf Coast Blues / Florida Bound Blues / At
The Christmas Ball / I've Been Mistreated And I Don't Like It / Red Mountain
Blues / Golden Rule Blues / Lonesome Desert Blues / Them 'Has Been' Blues /
Squeeze Me / What's The Matter Now? / I Want Ev'ry Bit Of It / Jazzbo Brown
From Memphis Town / The Gin House Blues