Bessie Smith – The Collection

Bessie Smith – The Collection
Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
Original Release Date: March 28, 1989
Label: Sony
ASIN: B0000026N0

The great Bessie sure could belt em out alright!

Peerlessly so!

Here are some of her many fine fine moments!

Bessie Smith was the greatest and most influential classic blues singer of the 1920s. Her full-bodied blues delivery coupled with a remarkable self-assuredness that worked its way in and around most every note she sang, plus her sharp sense of phrasing, enabled her to influence virtually every female blues singer who followed. During her heyday, she sold hundreds of thousands of records and earned upwards of $2.000 per week, which was a queenly sum in the 1920s. She routinely played to packed houses in the South as well as the North and Midwest. By the time the decade had ended, Smith had become the most respected black singer in America and had recorded a catalog of blues that still stands as the yardstick by which all other female blues singers are measured.

For many blacks, Smith was more than just a blues singer. Thanks to an assertive personality and an emancipated, often excessive lifestyle that included much drinking, frequent fistfights, wild sexual encounters with both men and women, and little tolerance of people who aimed to exploit her, Smith became a black cultural symbol. To many blacks, her success represented a triumph over white domination in the entertainment business. She gave hope to oppressed black women and inspired countless of other singers. Smith influenced everyone from Billie Holiday to Mahalia Jackson and Janis Joplin. Although she died 1937, still in the primer of her career, she left behind a legacy that is wonderfully rich and practically unparalleled. She ranks with the best artists the blues has ever produced.

-Amazon.com

Backed by a rotating roster of jazz stars, Smith’s potent delivery made her a peerless star of classic female blues, combining a fiercely independent, almost defiant approach with subtly effective tinges of vulnerability. Early cuts such as “Downhearted Blues,” which supposedly saved Columbia records from extinction in 1923, and “T’aint Nobody’s Bizness If I Do” feature only Clarence Williams’s piano behind her, but it’s her work with Louis Armstrong that truly stands out-Satchmo majestically bobs and weaves his cornet around Smith’s lines on “St. Louis Blues,” “Reckless Blues,” “I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle,” and the ragtime chestnut “You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon.” Unfortunately, Columbia offers buyers only two options: this cursory 16-song introduction or an exhaustive five-volume double-CD series.

-Marc Greilsamer

Tracklisting

1. Downhearted Blues
2. ‘Taint Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
3. My Sweetie Went Away
4. Weepin’ Willow Blues
5. St. Louis Blues (with Louis Armstrong)
6. Reckless Blues
7. You’ve Been A Good Ole Wagon
8. i Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
9. Young Woman’s Blues
10. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moon)
11. Mean Old Bedbug Blues
12. Empty Bed Blues (Part. 1 & 2)
13. Nobody Knows When You’re Down And Out
14. Black Mountain Blues
15. Do Your Duty
16. Gimme a Pigfoot

Here be Bessie

http://www.linkbucks.com/link/6efd49da

pass: bluestown

Big thanks to the original poster

We do not host any files here. If this post contains a link to content hosted elsewhere, this is content found by a simple search on the worldwide freedom web. However, if for some valid reason, you object to a said content, or any content here, please let us know and we will remove the content in question.

Any content linked to here is only meant as a taster for the original work itself and is posted on the strict understanding that anyone who downloads the taster, deletes said content within 24 hours. We would assume that these fans will then buy the original work and we greatly encourage them to do so.

Mail us: stupidand@gmail.com

Home Art Babes Cartoons Dylan Editorial Music Videos Other

“Can’t we all just get the f**k along ?!”

Bessie Smith – Empress of the Blues II

Bessie Smith – Empress of the Blues II
FLAC (98+84 MB) | MP3 320 KBP/s (98+4 MB) | 49:51 min
Genre: Blues

The wonderful Bessie rattles off some more classics here in that perfect way of hers!

Love it!!

Tracklisting

01 – Down hearted blues
02 – Gulf Coast blues
03 – Aggravatin’ Papa
04 – T’ain’t nobody’s buisness if I do
05 – Whoa, Tillie, take your time
06 – My sweetie went away
07 – Any woman’s blues
08 – Weeping willow blues
09 – Careless love blues
10 – I ain’t gonna play no second fiddle
11 – I ain’t got nobody
12 – Empty bed blues
13 – Do your duty
14 – Gimme a pig foot

Download

FLAC

part 1 | part 2

MP3

part 1 | part 2

Big thanks to the original poster

Mail us: stupidand@gmail.com

Home Art Babes Cartoons Dylan Editorial Music Videos Other

Bessie Smith – Empress of the Blues II

Bessie Smith – Empress of the Blues II
FLAC (98+84 MB) | MP3 320 KBP/s (98+4 MB) | 49:51 min
Genre: Blues

The wonderful Bessie rattles off some more classics here in that perfect way of hers!

Love it!!

Tracklisting

01 – Down hearted blues
02 – Gulf Coast blues
03 – Aggravatin’ Papa
04 – T’ain’t nobody’s buisness if I do
05 – Whoa, Tillie, take your time
06 – My sweetie went away
07 – Any woman’s blues
08 – Weeping willow blues
09 – Careless love blues
10 – I ain’t gonna play no second fiddle
11 – I ain’t got nobody
12 – Empty bed blues
13 – Do your duty
14 – Gimme a pig foot

Download

FLAC

part 1 | part 2

MP3

part 1 | part 2

Big thanks to the original poster

Mail us: stupidand@gmail.com

Home Art Babes Cartoons Dylan Editorial Music Videos Other