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Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age.Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.
The box-set is a 5-CD collection featuring five hours of music, with 16 previously unreleased tracks, and a 140-page, large-format book. [1] It covers a range of styles and themes including many topical songs about world events and cultural figures.
This work is from the Carl Van Vechten Photographs collection at the Library of Congress. ... Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African ...
Four days later, influential boogie-woogie pianist Pinetop Smith recorded "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" in Chicago, [6] crediting himself as the author. In it, lyrics (again quite different from either Bobby Leecan's or Bessie Smith's) are spoken rather than sung, by Pinetop Smith and Alberta Reynolds, to Pinetop's piano ...
The American Collection is a series of eleven quilt paintings by American artist Faith Ringgold, completed in 1997, with an additional unfinished quilt that the artist sketched but did not complete. The series serves as a continuation of the narrative the artist began in her earlier series of quilt paintings The French Collection (1991-1997).
"I remember doing it when we did 'Bessie Smith' in '75. They are both great songs and sound cool," he told Griffin. Helm sings the first verse; Robertson, the second; Danko, the third; and Manuel, the fourth. All four sing harmony on the chorus. [43] Ward calls the song "one of the joys of the whole collection". [44]
Bessie Smith, left, and Queen Latifah, right, as Smith in "Bessie." Three Lions/Getty Images; HBO Portraying the "Empress of Blues" "left this mark on me," Queen Latifah told NPR .
Bessie Smith – first recorded under the title "Me and My Gin" on 25 August 1928, [2] in New York City and issued as Columbia 14384-D; [3] she also recorded a different song called 'Gin House Blues', with Fletcher Henderson, on 18 March 1926. [2] Amen Corner – released the song as a single in 1967; it reached Number 12 in the UK Singles ...