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    Biography

    The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of "The Empress of the Blues." Even on her first records in 1923, her passionate voice overcame the primitive recording quality of the day and still communicates easily to today's listeners (which is not true of any other singer from that early period). At a time when the ...more
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    Lyrics

  • Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
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    Sound Clips

  • The Bye Bye Blues
  • You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
  • Downhearted Blues
  • Sing Sing Prison Blues
  • I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
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    Web Links

  • Harry's Blues Lyrics Online: Bessie Smith page
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