Bessie Smith

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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 02:58 Tools
St. Louis Blues 03:13 Tools
Me and My Gin 02:50 Tools
Do Your Duty 03:24 Tools
Alexander's Ragtime Band 00:00 Tools
A Good Man Is Hard to Find 02:59 Tools
Careless Love Blues 03:27 Tools
Back Water Blues 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pigfoot 00:00 Tools
Careless Love 00:00 Tools
'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair 00:00 Tools
Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl 02:49 Tools
Kitchen Man 00:00 Tools
Trombone Cholly 00:00 Tools
Down Hearted Blues 00:00 Tools
Black Mountain Blues 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
Take Me for a Buggy Ride 00:00 Tools
Downhearted Blues 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues 00:00 Tools
Aggravatin' Papa 00:00 Tools
Cake Walkin' Babies from Home 00:00 Tools
Safety Mama 03:26 Tools
Backwater Blues 03:18 Tools
Weeping Willow Blues 00:00 Tools
You've Been a Good Ole Wagon 00:00 Tools
Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) 00:00 Tools
At the Christmas Ball 00:00 Tools
Jail-House Blues 00:00 Tools
Reckless Blues 00:00 Tools
Young Woman's Blues 00:00 Tools
In the House Blues 00:00 Tools
Muddy Water 00:00 Tools
Devil's Gonna Git You 00:00 Tools
The Yellow Dog Blues 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Got Nobody 00:00 Tools
Graveyard Dream Blues 00:00 Tools
On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) 00:00 Tools
Boweavil Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Down in the Dumps 03:13 Tools
Baby Doll 02:59 Tools
Gulf Coast Blues 00:00 Tools
Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer 00:00 Tools
My Sweetie Went Away 00:00 Tools
Mean Old Bedbug Blues 00:00 Tools
Take It Right Back 00:00 Tools
Dyin' by the Hour 00:00 Tools
Blue Spirit Blues 00:00 Tools
Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
There'll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight 00:00 Tools
Moan, You Moaners 00:00 Tools
Lost Your Head Blues 00:00 Tools
Haunted House Blues 00:00 Tools
Dying Gambler's Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Wild About That Thing 00:00 Tools
After You're Gone 00:00 Tools
Lady Luck Blues 00:00 Tools
Mama's Got the Blues 00:00 Tools
Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine 00:00 Tools
Devil's Gonna Get You 00:00 Tools
Any Woman's Blues 00:00 Tools
He's Got Me Going 00:00 Tools
I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl 00:00 Tools
St Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Mama 00:00 Tools
Cemetery Blues 00:00 Tools
Outside of That 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
Cold in Hand Blues 00:00 Tools
Shipwreck Blues 00:00 Tools
Lock and Key 00:00 Tools
Sam Jones Blues 00:00 Tools
Easy Come, Easy Go Blues 00:00 Tools
Chicago Bound Blues 00:00 Tools
Sobbin' Hearted Blues 00:00 Tools
Bleeding Hearted Blues 00:00 Tools
He's Got Me Goin' 00:00 Tools
Preachin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
Midnight Blues 00:00 Tools
'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out 00:00 Tools
Foolish Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Down In the Dumps 00:00 Tools
Sinful Blues 00:00 Tools
The St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Blues but Mine 00:00 Tools
Mistreating Daddy 00:00 Tools
I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama 00:00 Tools
Frosty Morning Blues 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues (Parts 1 & 2) 00:00 Tools
Yodling Blues 00:00 Tools
Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home) 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
Oh Daddy Blues 00:00 Tools
Hateful Blues 00:00 Tools
Jailhouse Blues 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer - 2015 Remix 00:00 Tools
Thinking Blues 00:00 Tools
At the Christmas Ball - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
If You Don't, I Know Who Will 00:00 Tools
You've Got to Give Me Some 00:00 Tools
Nashville Woman's Blues 00:00 Tools
Poor Man's Blues 00:00 Tools
The Gin House Blues 00:00 Tools
Mean Old Bed Bug Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Mistreater 00:00 Tools
Weepin' Willow Blues 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer) 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Gal 00:00 Tools
Soft Pedal Blues 03:22 Tools
Sorrowful Blues 00:00 Tools
Eavesdropper's Blues 00:00 Tools
Honey Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Work House Blues 00:00 Tools
Far away blues 03:00 Tools
Rocking Chair Blues 00:00 Tools
My Sweetie Went Away (She Didn't Say Where, When Or Why) 00:00 Tools
i'm Going Back to My Used to Be 00:00 Tools
It Won't Be You 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing Prison Blues 00:00 Tools
Jail House Blues 00:00 Tools
It Makes My Love Come Down 00:00 Tools
Long Old Road 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues (1925) 00:00 Tools
Squeeze Me 00:00 Tools
Careless Love Blues - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Summertime (from porgy and bess) 00:00 Tools
On Revival Day 00:00 Tools
Spider Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You Are Down and Out 00:00 Tools
My Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Dirty No-gooder's blues 00:00 Tools
You've Been a Good Old Wagon 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When Your Down and Out 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Hustlin' Dan 00:00 Tools
I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave 00:00 Tools
He's Gone Blues 00:00 Tools
J.C. Holmes Blues 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Desert Blues 00:00 Tools
House Rent Blues 00:00 Tools
I Want Every Bit of It 00:00 Tools
Nobody knows when your down and out 00:00 Tools
Keeps On a-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time) 00:00 Tools
Standin' in the Rain Blues 00:00 Tools
Wasted Life Blues 00:00 Tools
Woman's Trouble Blues 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pigfoot (Gimme a Reefer) 00:00 Tools
Follow the Deal on Down 00:00 Tools
Keep It to Yourself 00:00 Tools
Gin House Blues 00:00 Tools
New Gulf Coast Blues 00:00 Tools
Hard Driving Papa 00:00 Tools
Graveyard Dream Blues - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
New Orleans Hop Scop Blues 00:00 Tools
Moonshine Blues 00:00 Tools
Dixie Flyer Blues 00:00 Tools
Slow and Easy Man 02:56 Tools
Mountain Top Blues 00:00 Tools
'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Homeless Blues 00:00 Tools
Frankie Blues 00:00 Tools
Cake Walkin' Babies 00:00 Tools
Love Me Daddy Blues 00:00 Tools
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home - Original 00:00 Tools
Don't Cry Baby 00:00 Tools
Put It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There) 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
Golden Rule Blues 00:00 Tools
You Ought to Be Ashamed 00:00 Tools
See If I'll Care 00:00 Tools
Money Blues 00:00 Tools
Salt Water Blues 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows When You Are Down And Out 00:00 Tools
The Bye Bye Blues 00:00 Tools
Backwater Blues - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
I've Been Mistreated and I Don't Like It 00:00 Tools
Yellow Dog Blues 00:00 Tools
Red Mountain Blues 00:00 Tools
Rainy Weather Blues 00:00 Tools
One and Two Blues 00:00 Tools
Hard Time Blues 00:00 Tools
Washwoman's Blues 00:00 Tools
Them's Graveyard Words 00:00 Tools
Kitchen Man - 78 rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Looking for My Man Blues 00:00 Tools
You Don't Understand 00:00 Tools
I Won't Be You 00:00 Tools
Yes Indeed He Do! 00:00 Tools
Florida Bound Blues 00:00 Tools
Empty Red Blues (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Nashville Women's Blues 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
I've Got What It Takes (But It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away) 00:00 Tools
Take It Right Back ('Cause I Don't Want It Here) 00:00 Tools
Careless Love Blues (take 1) 00:00 Tools
T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Pickpocket Blues 00:00 Tools
T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
Please Help Me Get Him Out of My Mind 00:00 Tools
Worn out Papa Blues 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out) 00:00 Tools
Baby Have Pity On Me 00:00 Tools
Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Pinchbacks - Take 'Em Away 00:00 Tools
Nowbody Knows You When You're Down And Out 00:00 Tools
Honeyman Blues 00:00 Tools
Back-Water Blues 00:00 Tools
Easy Come Easy Go Blues 00:00 Tools
Muddy Water [A Mississippi Moon] 00:00 Tools
Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Play o Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (78rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pig Foot 00:00 Tools
What's the Matter Now 00:00 Tools
Blue Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Wild About That Thing - 78 rpm Version 00:00 Tools
What's the Matter Now? 00:00 Tools
I Want Ev'ry Bit of It 00:00 Tools
Gimme A Pigfoot 00:00 Tools
If You Don't I Know Who Will 00:00 Tools
Alexander Ragtime Band 00:00 Tools
Sometimes 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues (Part One) 00:00 Tools
Them "Has Been" Blues 00:00 Tools
Standing in the Rain Blues 00:00 Tools
Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
Noboby Knows You When You're Down 00:00 Tools
Blue Blue 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Blues 00:00 Tools
Keeps on a-Rainin' (Papa He Can't Make No Time) 00:00 Tools
Hot Spring Blues 00:00 Tools
Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Standin' In The Rain 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Went Away 00:00 Tools
Gimme A Pig Foot And A Bottle Of Beer 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out 00:00 Tools
Backwater Blues (78rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
Lou'siana Low-Down Blues 00:00 Tools
Alexanders Ragtime Band 00:00 Tools
Oh Daddy Blues (You Won't Have No Mama At All) 00:00 Tools
Lou'siana Low Down Blues 00:00 Tools
Sugar Foot Stomp - 1925 Version 00:00 Tools
I'm Wild at That Thing 00:00 Tools
The House Blues 00:00 Tools
I've Got What It Takes 00:00 Tools
Keeps On a-Rainin' 00:00 Tools
Mistreatin' Daddy 00:00 Tools
J. C. Holmes Blues 00:00 Tools
You'd Been A Good Ole Wagon 00:00 Tools
Careless Love Blues (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
I Got What It Takes 00:00 Tools
Black Water Blues 00:00 Tools
Lock And Hey 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues (with Louis Armstrong) 00:00 Tools
I`m Wild About That Thing 00:00 Tools
Graveyard Dream Blues (78rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moon) 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues, Pts. 1-2 00:00 Tools
Hot Springs Blues 00:00 Tools
pinchbacks-Take 'em Away 00:00 Tools
Put It Right Here 00:00 Tools
I'm Wild About That Thing - Studio 00:00 Tools
Aggravatin' Papa (Don'T You Try To Two-Time) 00:00 Tools
Down Hearted Blues - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Mary Jane 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues (78rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues (Pts 1 & 2) 00:00 Tools
Baby Have Pitty On Me 00:00 Tools
Rockin' Chair Blues 00:00 Tools
Keep On A Rainin' 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
Oh! Daddy Blues 00:00 Tools
Alexander's Rag Time Band 00:00 Tools
Moan You Mourners 00:00 Tools
Yes Indeed He Do 00:00 Tools
Ticket Agent Ease Your Window Down 00:00 Tools
T'ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind 00:00 Tools
empty Bed Blues Part 1 00:00 Tools
Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl 00:00 Tools
(There'll Be A) Hot Time in Old Town 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You're Down 00:00 Tools
Muddy Water ( A Mississippi Moan) 00:00 Tools
Keeps On A Rainin' 00:00 Tools
A Mississippi Moan 00:00 Tools
Them 'Has Been' Blues 00:00 Tools
empty Bed Blues Part 2 00:00 Tools
Dixie Flying Blues 00:00 Tools
The St Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Alexanders Rag Time Band 00:00 Tools
The Saint Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
02.Young Woman'S Blues 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues: The St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
St.Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Know Who Will 00:00 Tools
If You Dont, I Know Who Will 00:00 Tools
Down Hearted Blues (78rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
'tain't Nobody's Bizness if I 00:00 Tools
'T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Got to Play No Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
Aggravatin Papa 00:00 Tools
You've Got To Give Me Some - 78 rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Gulf Coats Blues 00:00 Tools
Ain't Gonna Play Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Play Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
Young Woman Blues 00:00 Tools
Taint' Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Taint Nobody's Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
Womans Trouble Blues 00:00 Tools
Mean Old Bedbug Bues 00:00 Tools
Down Hearted Blues (78 RPM Version) 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When Youre Down And Out 00:00 Tools
02 - 'T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Alexander's Ragtime Band (Studio) 00:00 Tools
12.St Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Shipwreck 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You (When You're Down & Out) 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues (Part Two) 00:00 Tools
Trombone Cholly (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Standing In the Rain (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Saint-Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Hard Drivin' Papa 00:00 Tools
Bo Weavil Blues 00:00 Tools
13 - Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out 00:00 Tools
07.If You Don'T I Know Who Will 00:00 Tools
Cemetary Blues 00:00 Tools
Wandering Eyes 00:00 Tools
09.T'Ain'T Nobody'S Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
He Treats Me Like A Dog 00:00 Tools
09 - Young Woman's Blues 00:00 Tools
After you've gone: After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
Gimme A Pigfoot & A Bottle Of Beer 00:00 Tools
Ain't got nobody 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You're 00:00 Tools
On Revival Day 1930 00:00 Tools
Back Water Blues [1927] 00:00 Tools
Pinchbacks, Take 'em Away 00:00 Tools
Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl (1931) 00:00 Tools
Kitchen Man (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Pinch Back Blues 00:00 Tools
12 - Empty Bed Blues (Parts 1 & 2) 00:00 Tools
14.Baby Won'T You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Any Womans Blues 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues, Part 1 00:00 Tools
08 - I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
20.Gimme A Pigfoot 00:00 Tools
10 - Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) 00:00 Tools
14 - Black Mountain Blues 00:00 Tools
Nashvile Woman'S Blues 00:00 Tools
11.Aggravatin' Papa (Don'T You Try To Two-Time) 00:00 Tools
Careless Love: 1 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
You've Been A Good Ol' Wagon 00:00 Tools
Foolish Man Blues (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Goin' Crazy With The Blues 00:00 Tools
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair 1927 00:00 Tools
Backwater Blues 1927 00:00 Tools
Honey Man Blues [*] 00:00 Tools
At the Christmas Ball (78rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
16 - Gimme A Pigfoot 00:00 Tools
See See Rider Blues 00:00 Tools
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pigfoot (Studio) 00:00 Tools
I Used To Be Your Sweet Mama (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Send Me To the 'Lectric Chair (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Honeymoon Blues 00:00 Tools
Sam Jones' Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Wild About That Thing (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Foolish Man Blues (Recorded, October 1927) 00:00 Tools
New Orleans Hop Scop Blues (78rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
Dyin' By the Hour (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Lock Amd Key 00:00 Tools
Me and My Gin 1928 00:00 Tools
You've Got To Give Me Some (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Mykonos 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You're.. 00:00 Tools
Cold in Hands Blues 00:00 Tools
Kitchen Man (78 rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
Down Hearted Blues 1923 00:00 Tools
He's Got Me Goin' (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Pinchbacks-Take Em Away 00:00 Tools
Down-Hearted Blues 00:00 Tools
After You’ve Gone 00:00 Tools
Aint Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Baby Won't You Please Come Hom 00:00 Tools
I'm Down In The Dumps - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Louisiana Low Down Blues 00:00 Tools
I AIN'T GOT NO BODY (I'm thus a GHOST!) 00:00 Tools
The Yellow Dog Blues - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Going To Play Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer 1933 00:00 Tools
Florida Bound Blues (78rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
Bessie Disappears 00:00 Tools
Do Your Duty (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Aggravation Papa 00:00 Tools
Standing in the Rain 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues Soundtrack 00:00 Tools
Pinchbecks - Take 'Em Away 00:00 Tools
All of Me 00:00 Tools
Baby Won't You Please Come Home 1923 00:00 Tools
Blue Spirit Blues (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Gimme A Pigfoot (Live) 00:00 Tools
Lock and Key (Studio) 00:00 Tools
A Good Man is Hard to Find 1927 00:00 Tools
Devil's Gonna Get You (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Frosty Mornin' Blues 00:00 Tools
T'aint Nobody's Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
New Orleans Hop Scop Blues - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Pinchbacks-Take 'Em Away! 00:00 Tools
Them Has Been Blues 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Goin' To Play No Second Fiddle 1925 00:00 Tools
I Am Wild About That Thing 00:00 Tools
The St.Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Soft Pedal Blues - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Countin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
Soft Pedal Blues 1925 00:00 Tools
Gimmie a Pigfoot 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Nashville woman blues 00:00 Tools
Id Rather Be Dead And Buried 00:00 Tools
Blind Country Blues 00:00 Tools
Baby Won't You Please Come Home? 00:00 Tools
Alexander's Ragtime Band 1927 00:00 Tools
Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl 1931 00:00 Tools
Nobody In Town Can Back a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine 00:00 Tools
I Need a Little Sugar In My Bowl - Lovin' Sam Theard 00:00 Tools
Waldorf-Astoria Party 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone 1927 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Saint Louis Blues 1925 00:00 Tools
Trombone Cholly 1927 00:00 Tools
Sobbin' Hearted Blues 1925 00:00 Tools
Careless Love Blues 1925 00:00 Tools
Summertime (from porgy and bes 00:00 Tools
Baby Won't You Jump With Me 00:00 Tools
Muddy Water (Mississippi Moan)-1 00:00 Tools
I Aint Gonna Play No Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
The Yellow Dog Blues 1925 00:00 Tools
Carless Love Blues 00:00 Tools
Not Much Love 00:00 Tools
Gimme A Pig Foot And A Bottle 00:00 Tools
baby doll 1926 00:00 Tools
Reckless Blues 1925 00:00 Tools
I Aint Got Nobody 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues 1928 00:00 Tools
Backwater Blues [78rpm Version] 00:00 Tools
Keeps On a-Rainin' (Papa, He Cant Make No Time) 00:00 Tools
Cake Walkin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody Business 00:00 Tools
Four Day Creep 00:00 Tools
My Swwetie Went Away 00:00 Tools
Down-Hearted Blues (02-16-23) 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues (1929) 00:00 Tools
St. Luis Blues 00:00 Tools
Gulf Coast Ablues 00:00 Tools
Cake Walkin' Babies From Home 1925 00:00 Tools
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pig ('s) Foot (And a Bottle of Beer) 00:00 Tools
Hot Dog Man 00:00 Tools
Bessie Smith - Empty Bed Blues 00:00 Tools
New Orleans Hop Scotch Blues 00:00 Tools
You've Been A Good Ole Wagon (But You Done Broke Down) 00:00 Tools
Young Womans Blues 00:00 Tools
Nashvile Womens Blues 00:00 Tools
Apex Blues 00:00 Tools
Resolution 00:00 Tools
Bessie Smith - Mary Jane 00:00 Tools
Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Try To Two-Time Me) 00:00 Tools
'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Back Water Blues (1927) 00:00 Tools
I Want Every Bit 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues Soundtrack - Band Intro 00:00 Tools
Baby Want You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues (Part 1 & 2) 00:00 Tools
Summertime (from 'Porgy and Bess') 00:00 Tools
I'm Wild About That Thing (1929) 00:00 Tools
Ticket Agent, Ease Your Windows Down 00:00 Tools
Thinking Blues (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You 00:00 Tools
Aggravatin' Pappa 00:00 Tools
Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Nobody knows you when you´re down and out 00:00 Tools
Careless Love: 2 00:00 Tools
Nobody Know You When You're Down and Out 1929 00:00 Tools
Therell Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight 00:00 Tools
Surf Coast Blues 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues Soundtrack - Crap Game 00:00 Tools
Moan Mourners 00:00 Tools
The St. Louis Blues (01-14-25) 00:00 Tools
Gimme A Pigfoot And... 00:00 Tools
Ain' T Nobody's Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You Are Down & Out 00:00 Tools
Careless Loveblues 00:00 Tools
Muddy Waters 00:00 Tools
Tain't Nobodys Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
Bessie & Jack, I 00:00 Tools
Life on the Road, I 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Moaning the Blues 00:00 Tools
Slide 00:00 Tools
Keeps on a Rainin 00:00 Tools
I Need A Little Dugar In My Bowl 00:00 Tools
Alexander's Rag Time 00:00 Tools
Careless Lover Blues 00:00 Tools
Jail-House Blues [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Two-Time Me) 00:00 Tools
nobody in town can bake a swee 00:00 Tools
Oh, Daddy 00:00 Tools
Back Down 00:00 Tools
Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do (04-26-23) 00:00 Tools
Hot Dog Man (Recorded 1927) 00:00 Tools
Baby Won't You Please Come Home Blues (04-11-23) 00:00 Tools
Whoa Tillie Take Your Time 00:00 Tools
Jelly Bean Blues 00:00 Tools
Death Letter Blues 00:00 Tools
Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle of Beer [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Play No Second F 00:00 Tools
Black Mountain Blues (1930) 00:00 Tools
Aggravatin' Papa - That's What I Like 00:00 Tools
There'll Be Hot Time in Old Town Tonight 03:19 Tools
Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jeily Roll Like Mine 00:00 Tools
Devils Gonna Get You 00:00 Tools
'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
Nobodys Blues but Mine 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Mamma 00:00 Tools
Keeps On Rainin' 00:00 Tools
Boweanvil blues 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Know I Know Who Will 00:00 Tools
Life on the Road, II 00:00 Tools
Railroad Blues 00:00 Tools
Riverboat Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Mama (04-11-23) 00:00 Tools
Gulf Coast Blues (02-16-23) 00:00 Tools
Taint Nobodys Business If I Do 00:00 Tools
NOBODY IN TOWN CAN 00:00 Tools
You Don't Understand Me 00:00 Tools
Graveyard Dream Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Keeps On A-Rainin' (Papa- He Can't Make No Time) 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues - Part 2 00:00 Tools
After Youve Gone 00:00 Tools
Bessie Smith - Me And My Gin 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When 00:00 Tools
Young Woman's Blues (1926) 00:00 Tools
Black Bottom Stomp 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues, Parts 1 & 2 00:00 Tools
'Tain't Nobody's Business If I 00:00 Tools
Nashville Women's Blues (version 1) 00:00 Tools
Frosty Mornin' Blues: 4 00:00 Tools
On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) (06-09-30) 00:00 Tools
Florida-Bound Blues 2 00:00 Tools
Florida-Bound Blues 3 00:00 Tools
Aggravatin' Papa (04-11-23) 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong) 00:00 Tools
Bessie Smith - 01 - Downhearted Blues 00:00 Tools
Slow and Easy 00:00 Tools
Lock and Keys 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues - Part 1 00:00 Tools
Careless Love Blues (version 2) 00:00 Tools
Nashville Women's Blues (version 2) 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues - part II 00:00 Tools
Mississippi Moan 00:00 Tools
Downhearted Blues (Album) 00:00 Tools
Keeps On A-Rainin 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonin' To Play Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
Oh Daddy (You Won't Have No Mama At All) (04-11-23) 00:00 Tools
BESSIE SMITH MUDDY WATER (A MI 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues [Part 1] 00:00 Tools
T' Aint't Nobody's Bizzness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet... 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (1929) 00:00 Tools
The Devil's Gonna Get You 00:00 Tools
Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moa 00:00 Tools
Aint Gonna Paly Second Fiddle 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues-1925 00:00 Tools
If You Don't- I Know Who Will 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues-Part 1 00:00 Tools
Keep On A Raining 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues - part I 00:00 Tools
Florida bound 00:00 Tools
Keep on A Rainin! 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues (Featuring Louis Armstrong) 00:00 Tools
Chemicals 00:00 Tools
Bessie Smith - 02 - 'T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Cemetery Blues (1923) 00:00 Tools
Cake-Walking Babies From Home 00:00 Tools
Cake Walking Babies (From Home) 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing Pison Blues 00:00 Tools
Do Your Duty - Original 00:00 Tools
You’ve Been A Good Old Wagon 00:00 Tools
Salt Water Blues - Original 00:00 Tools
T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
'Taint Nobody's Business 00:00 Tools
Bessie Smith - 04 - Weeping Willow Blues 00:00 Tools
Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do: 'Taint Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do 00:00 Tools
T' ain't nobody's bizness if I do 00:00 Tools
Yodeling Blues 00:00 Tools
Im Wild At That Thing 00:00 Tools
Blue Sprit Blues 00:00 Tools
Careless Love Blues (version 1) 00:00 Tools
Send Me To The 'lectric Chair 00:00 Tools
Pennies From Heaven 00:00 Tools
Dirty No Gooders Blues 00:00 Tools
i ain't got nobody (1925) 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues [Part 2] 00:00 Tools
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Poor Man`s Blues 00:00 Tools
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Knockin’ Myself Out 00:00 Tools
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Oh Daddy, You Won't Have No Mama At All 00:00 Tools
12 - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 00:00 Tools
Sweet Jelly Roll 00:00 Tools
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Hard Times Blues 00:00 Tools
You Dont Understand 00:00 Tools
Baby, Have Pity on Me 00:00 Tools
Baby Wont You Please Come Home (Album) 00:00 Tools
Gimme a Pigfoot (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
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I Got What It Takes (But It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away) 00:00 Tools
Jack I'm Mellow 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Know I Don't Know Who Will 00:00 Tools
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Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine (1923) 00:00 Tools
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Pick Pocket Blues 00:00 Tools
Put It Right Here or Stay out There 00:00 Tools
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Careless love (1924) 00:00 Tools
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Back Water Blues (78rpm Version) 00:00 Tools
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Down Blues 00:00 Tools
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Dont Cry Baby 00:00 Tools
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Mama´s Got the Blues 00:00 Tools
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Grandpa's Spells 00:00 Tools
Please Help Me to Get Him off My Mind 00:00 Tools
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Any Womans Blues (Album) 00:00 Tools
I'd Rather Be Dead Than Buried 00:00 Tools
I Hate to See the Evening Sun Go Down 00:00 Tools
I'm Going Back To My Used To Be (with Clara Smith) 00:00 Tools
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St. Louis Blues (78 RPM Version) 00:00 Tools
Florida-Bound Blues 6 00:00 Tools
Far Away Blues (with Clara Smith) 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp 00:00 Tools
Washwomens Blues 00:00 Tools
Outside Of That (04-28-23) 00:00 Tools
You Dont Understand Me 00:00 Tools
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Yodling Blues (06-14-23) 00:00 Tools
Lady Luck Blues (06-14-23) 00:00 Tools
Do Your Duty, New York 1933 00:00 Tools
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You’Ve Been A Good Ole Wagon 00:00 Tools
Bessie Smith Empty Bed Blues 00:00 Tools
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Eavesdropper Blues 00:00 Tools
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Baby, Won't You, Please, Come Home Blues 00:00 Tools
Im Wild About That Thing 00:00 Tools
Cake Walkin' Babies, From Home 00:00 Tools
I'm Wild about That Thang 00:00 Tools
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
St Louis Blues (Album) 00:00 Tools
Yodlig Blues 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues-Part 3 00:00 Tools
Life on the Road, III / Bessie & Gertrude Sanders 00:00 Tools
Maple Leaf Rag 00:00 Tools
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Preachin’ The Blues 00:00 Tools
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I’Ve Been Mistreated And I Don’T Like It 00:00 Tools
Moan, You Mourners 00:00 Tools
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Chicago Bound Blues (Album) 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows 00:00 Tools
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Cake Walkin Babies 00:00 Tools
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I’Ve Got What It Takes (But It Breaks My Heart To Give It Away) 00:00 Tools
Farewell Baby Blues (Pm 12922, L-90-2) 00:00 Tools
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Alexander's Ragtime Band (1927) 00:00 Tools
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My Mad Blues 00:00 Tools
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I Used To Be Your Sweet Mama (1928) 00:00 Tools
Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine (06-22-23) 00:00 Tools
Eaves Droppers Blues 00:00 Tools
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Mean Old Bug Blues 00:00 Tools
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Care Walkin' Babies 00:00 Tools
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Down Hearted Blues (1923) 00:00 Tools
Gimme A Pigfoot - Live 00:00 Tools
Down In The Dumps [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
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Empty Bed Blues (Pt. 1) 00:00 Tools
Farewell Baby Blues 00:00 Tools
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Sobbin' Heart Blues 00:00 Tools
Standin in the Rain Blues 00:00 Tools
Devil's Gonne Git You 00:00 Tools
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If You Don't I Know Who Will (06-22-23) 00:00 Tools
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Put It Right There 00:00 Tools
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Devil's Gonna Getcha 00:00 Tools
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Hustlin Dan 00:00 Tools
Jail House Blues (09-21-23) 00:00 Tools
Careless Lore 00:00 Tools
Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
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A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight 00:00 Tools
Baby Won_t You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
11. Sam Jones Blues (A. Bernard - R. Turk - J. R. Robinson) 00:00 Tools
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If You Don T, I Know Who Will 00:00 Tools
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Nobody in Town Can Bake a Jelly Roll Like My Man 00:00 Tools
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Tain't Nobodys Business If I Do (1923) 00:00 Tools
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the Essential 00:00 Tools
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Poor Mans Blues 00:00 Tools
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Mama`s Got the Blues 00:00 Tools
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Mean Old Bad Bug Blues 00:00 Tools
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T'aint Nobody's Buziness If I Do 00:00 Tools
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My Daddy's Coffin Blues 00:00 Tools
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Tain't Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Soft Pedal Blues [1925] 00:00 Tools
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Devil’S Gonna Git You 00:00 Tools
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Sam Jones Blues (09-24-23) 00:00 Tools
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Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and, along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on other jazz vocalists. The 1900 census indicates that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1892. However, the 1910 census recorded her birthday as April 15, 1894, a date that appears on all subsequent documents and was observed by the entire Smith family. Census data also contributes to controversy about the size of her family. The 1870 and 1880 censuses report three older half-siblings, while later interviews with Smith's family and contemporaries did not include these individuals among her siblings. Bessie Smith was the daughter of Laura (née Owens) and William Smith. William Smith was a laborer and part-time Baptist preacher (he was listed in the 1870 census as a "minister of the gospel", in Moulton, Lawrence, Alabama.) He died before his daughter could remember him. By the time she was nine, she had lost her mother and a brother as well. Her older sister Viola took charge of caring for her siblings. To earn money for their impoverished household, Bessie Smith and her brother Andrew began busking on the streets of Chattanooga as a duo: she singing and dancing, he accompanying her on guitar. Their favorite location was in front of the White Elephant Saloon at Thirteenth and Elm streets in the heart of the city's African-American community. In 1904, her oldest brother, Clarence, covertly left home, joining a small traveling troupe owned by Moses Stokes. "If Bessie had been old enough, she would have gone with him," said Clarence's widow, Maud. "That's why he left without telling her, but Clarence told me she was ready, even then. Of course, she was only a child." In 1912, Clarence returned to Chattanooga with the Stokes troupe. He arranged for its managers, Lonnie and Cora Fisher, to give Smith an audition. She was hired as a dancer rather than a singer, because the company also included the unknown singer, Ma Rainey. Smith eventually moved on to performing in various chorus lines, making the "81" Theater in Atlanta her home base. There were times when she worked in shows on the black-owned T.O.B.A (Theater Owners Booking Association) circuit. She would rise to become its biggest star after signing with Columbia Records. By 1923, when she began her recording career, Smith had taken up residence in Philadelphia. There she met and fell in love with Jack Gee, a security guard whom she married on June 7, 1923, just as her first record was released. During the marriage—a stormy one, with infidelity on both sides—Smith became the highest paid black entertainer of the day, heading her own shows, which sometimes featured as many as 40 troupers, and touring in her own railroad car. Gee was impressed by the money, but never adjusted to show business life, or to Smith's bisexuality. In 1929, when she learned of his affair with another singer, Gertrude Saunders, Bessie Smith ended the relationship, although neither of them sought a divorce. Smith eventually found a common-law husband in an old friend, Richard Morgan, who was Lionel Hampton's uncle and the antithesis of her husband. She stayed with him until her death. Career All contemporary accounts indicate that while Rainey did not teach Smith to sing, she probably helped her develop a stage presence. Smith began forming her own act around 1913, at Atlanta's "81" Theater. By 1920, Smith had established a reputation in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard. In 1920, sales figures of over 100,000 copies for "Crazy Blues," an Okeh Records recording by singer Mamie Smith (no relation) pointed to a new market. The recording industry had not directed its product to blacks, but the success of the record led to a search for female blues singers. Bessie Smith was signed by Columbia Records in 1923 and her first session for Columbia was February 15, 1923. For most of 1923, her records were issued on Columbia's regular A- series; when the label decided to establish a "race records" series, Smith's "Cemetery Blues" (September 26, 1923) was the first issued. She scored a big hit with her first release, a coupling of "Gulf Coast Blues" and "Downhearted Blues", which its composer Alberta Hunter had already turned into a hit on the Paramount label. Smith became a headliner on the black T.O.B.A. circuit and rose to become its top attraction in the 1920s. Working a heavy theater schedule during the winter months and doing tent tours the rest of the year (eventually traveling in her own railroad car), Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Columbia nicknamed her "Queen of the Blues," but a PR-minded press soon upgraded her title to "Empress". Smith had a powerfully strong voice that recorded very well from her first record, made during the time when recordings were made acoustically. With the coming of electrical recording (her first electrical recording was "Cake Walking Babies (From Home)" recorded Tuesday, May 5, 1925), the sheer power of her voice was even more evident. She was also able to benefit from the new technology of radio broadcasting, even on stations that were in the segregated south. For example, after giving a concert for a white-only audience at a local theater in Memphis, Tennessee, in October 1923, she then performed a late night concert on station WMC, where her songs were very well received by the radio audience. She made 160 recordings for Columbia, often accompanied by the finest musicians of the day, most notably Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson, James P. Johnson, Joe Smith, and Charlie Green. Broadway Smith's career was cut short by a combination of the Great Depression, which nearly put the recording industry out of business, and the advent of "talkies", which spelled the end for vaudeville. She never stopped performing, however. While the days of elaborate vaudeville shows were over, Smith continued touring and occasionally singing in clubs. In 1929, she appeared in a Broadway flop called Pansy, a musical in which top critics said she was the only asset. Film In 1929, Smith made her only film appearance, starring in a two-reeler titled St. Louis Blues, based on W. C. Handy's song of the same name. In the film, directed by Dudley Murphy and shot in Astoria, she sings the title song accompanied by members of Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, pianist James P. Johnson and a string section—a musical environment radically different from any found on her recordings. Swing era In 1933, John Hammond, who also mentored Billie Holiday, asked Smith to record four sides for Okeh (which had been acquired by Columbia Records in 1925). He claimed to have found her in semi-obscurity, working as a hostess in a speakeasy on Philadelphia's Ridge Avenue. Bessie Smith worked at Art's Cafe on Ridge Avenue, but not as a hostess and not until the summer of 1936. In 1933, when she made the Okeh sides, Bessie was still touring. Hammond was known for his selective memory and gratuitous embellishments. Bessie Smith was paid a non-royalty fee of $37.50 for each selection and these Okeh sides, which were her last recordings. Made on November 24, 1933, they serve as a hint of the transformation she made in her performances as she shifted her blues artistry into something that fit the "swing era". The relatively modern accompaniment is notable. The band included such swing era musicians as trombonist Jack Teagarden, trumpeter Frankie Newton, tenor saxophonist Chu Berry, pianist Buck Washington, guitarist Bobby Johnson, and bassist Billy Taylor. Benny Goodman, who happened to be recording with Ethel Waters in the adjoining studio, dropped by and is barely audible on one selection. Hammond was not entirely pleased with the results, preferring to have Smith revisit her old blues groove. "Take Me for a Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)", both written by Wesley Wilson, continue to be ranked among her most popular recordings. Billie Holiday, who credited Smith as her major influence along with Louis Armstrong, would go on to record her first record for Columbia three days later under the same band personnel. Death On September 26, 1937, Smith was critically injured in a car accident while traveling along U.S. Route 61 between Memphis, Tennessee, and Clarksdale, Mississippi. Her lover, Richard Morgan, was driving and, probably mesmerized by the long stretch of straight road, misjudged the speed of a slow-moving truck ahead of him. Tire marks at the scene suggested that Morgan tried to avoid the truck by driving around its left side, but he hit the rear of the truck side-on at high speed. The tailgate of the truck sheared off the wooden roof of Smith's old Packard. Smith, who was in the passenger seat, probably with her right arm or elbow out the window, took the full brunt of the impact. Morgan escaped without injuries. The first people on the scene were a Memphis surgeon, Dr. Hugh Smith (no relation), and his fishing partner Henry Broughton. In the early 1970s, Dr. Smith gave a detailed account of his experience to Bessie's biographer Chris Albertson. This is the most reliable eyewitness testimony about the events surrounding Bessie Smith's death. After stopping at the accident scene, Dr. Smith examined Bessie Smith, who was lying in the middle of the road with obviously severe injuries. He estimated she had lost about a half-pint of blood, and immediately noted a major traumatic injury to her right arm; it had been almost completely severed at the elbow. But Dr. Smith was emphatic that this arm injury alone did not cause her death. Although the light was poor, he observed only minor head injuries. He attributed her death to extensive and severe crush injuries to the entire right side of her body, consistent with a "sideswipe" collision. Broughton and Dr. Smith moved the singer to the shoulder of the road. Dr. Smith dressed her arm injury with a clean handkerchief and asked Broughton to go to a house about 500 feet off the road to call an ambulance. By the time Broughton returned approximately 25 minutes later, Bessie Smith was in shock. Time passed with no sign of the ambulance, so Dr. Smith suggested that they take her into Clarksdale in his car. He and Broughton had almost finished clearing the back seat when they heard the sound of a car approaching at high speed. Dr. Smith flashed his lights in warning, but the oncoming car failed to stop and plowed into the doctor's car at full speed. It sent his car careening into Bessie Smith's overturned Packard, completely wrecking it. The oncoming car ricocheted off Dr. Smith's car into the ditch on the right, barely missing Broughton and Bessie Smith. The young couple in the new car did not have life-threatening injuries. Two ambulances arrived on the scene from Clarksdale; one from the black hospital, summoned by Mr. Broughton, the other from the white hospital, acting on a report from the truck driver, who had not seen the accident victims. Bessie Smith was taken to Clarksdale's G. T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital, where her right arm was amputated. She died that morning without regaining consciousness. After Smith's death, an often repeated but now discredited story emerged about the circumstances; namely, that she had died as a result of having been refused admission to a "whites only" hospital in Clarksdale. Jazz writer/producer John Hammond gave this account in an article in the November 1937 issue of Down Beat magazine. The circumstances of Smith's death and the rumor promoted by Hammond formed the basis for Edward Albee's 1959 one-act play The Death of Bessie Smith. "The Bessie Smith ambulance would not have gone to a white hospital, you can forget that." Dr. Smith told Albertson. "Down in the Deep South cotton country, no ambulance driver, or white driver, would even have thought of putting a colored person off in a hospital for white folks." Smith's death certificate Smith's funeral was held in Philadelphia a little over a week later on October 4, 1937. Her body was originally laid out at Upshur's funeral home. As word of her death spread through Philadelphia's black community, the body had to be moved to the O.V. Catto Elks Lodge to accommodate the estimated 10,000 mourners who filed past her coffin on Sunday, October 3. Contemporary newspapers reported that her funeral was attended by about seven thousand people. Far fewer mourners attended the burial at Mount Lawn Cemetery, in nearby Sharon Hill. Gee thwarted all efforts to purchase a stone for his estranged wife, once or twice pocketing money raised for that purpose. The grave remained unmarked until August 7, 1970, when a tombstone—paid for by singer Janis Joplin and Juanita Green, who as a child had done housework for Smith—was erected. Dory Previn wrote a song of Janis Joplin and the tombstone called "Stone for Bessie Smith" on her album Mythical Kings and Iguanas. The Afro-American Hospital, now the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, was the site of the dedication of the fourth historic marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Hit records Year Single US Chart position 1923 "Downhearted Blues" 1 "Gulf Coast Blues" 5 "Aggravatin' Papa" 12 "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" 6 "T'ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do" 9 1925 "The St. Louis Blues" 3 "Careless Love Blues" 5 "I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle" 8 1926 "I Ain't Got Nobody" 8 "Lost Your Head Blues" 5 1927 "After You've Gone" 7 "Alexander's Ragtime Band" 17 1928 "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 13 "Empty Bed Blues20 1929 "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"15 Selective awards and recognition Grammy Hall of Fame Recordings of Bessie Smith were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. This special Grammy Award was established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance." Grammy Hall of Fame Award Year RecordedTitle Genre Label Year Inducted 1923 "Downhearted Blues"Blues (Single)Columbia2006 1925 "St. Louis Blues"Jazz (Single)Columbia1993 1928 "Empty Bed Blues"Blues (Single)Columbia1983 National Recording Registry In 2002 Smith's recording of the single, "Downhearted Blues", was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. The board selects songs on an annual basis that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." "Downhearted Blues" was included in the list of Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts in 2001. It is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 songs that shaped rock 'n' roll. Inductions Year InductedCategory 2008 Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of FameJazz at Lincoln Center, NYC 1989 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1989 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"Early influences" 1981 Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame 1980 Blues Hall of Fame U.S. Postage Stamp Year IssuedStampUSA 1994 29 cents Commemorative stampU.S. Postal Stamps Digital remastering Technical faults in the majority of her original gramophone recordings—especially variations in recording speed, which raised or lowered the apparent pitch of her voice, misrepresented the "light and shade" of her phrasing, interpretation and delivery. They altered the apparent key of her performances (sometimes raised or lowered by as much as a semitone). The fact that the "centre hole" in some of the master recordings had not been in the true middle of the master disc meant that there were wide variations in tone, pitch, key and phrasing, as commercially released records revolved around the spindle. Given those historic limitations, the current digitally remastered versions of her work deliver significant, very positive differences in the sound quality of Smith's performances. Some critics believe that the American Columbia Records compact disc releases are somewhat inferior to subsequent transfers made by the late John R. T. Davies for Frog Records. Popular culture The 1948 short story "Blue Melody" by J. D. Salinger and the 1959 play The Death of Bessie Smith by Edward Albee are both based on Smith's life and death, but poetic license is taken by both authors; for instance, Albee's play distorts the circumstances of her medical treatment, or lack thereof, prior to her demise, attributing it to racist medical practitioners. Playwright Angelo Parra wrote the 2001 musical play The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, with Miche Braden in the title role The musical now in production, Bessie's Back In Town by Barry Edelson, as accurately as possible represents major aspects of her life as well as her death while remaining true to her music.[26] Jack Peñate's song "Learning Lines" off his first album refers to "Bessie Smith, sings the blues" in its chorus. The video game series Bioshock (1 and 2) Bessie Smith is portrayed as a cameo of a character by the name of Grace Holloway. Bessie Smith's music can be heard during the loading screen and in the level Paupers Drop, and in the various hallways and rooms of the sunken city. Canadian folk singer Valdy's song "Peter and Lou" refers to "Bessie Smith singin' the blues..." three times. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.