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Artist:
SMITH, BESSIE
Title:
Empty Bed Blues
Label:
COLUMBIA
Format:
2LP
Price:
$21.00
Catalog #:
CG 30450LP
Gatefold exact repro reissue of the 1971 collection of recordings by the "empress of the blues." One of the most popular female blues singers of the 1920s-30s, Smith recorded alongside the likes of Louis Armstrong, Bob Fuller, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins and Fletcher Henderson. Songs include "Me And My Gin," " I'd Rather Be Dead And Buried In My Grave," "Devil's Gonna Get You" and "Poor Man's Blues."
Artist:
SMITH, BESSIE
Title:
Them's Graveyard Words
Label:
MONK (ITALY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
MK 333LP
New lower pricing. "Bessie Smith was the greatest of all pre-war blues singers, and perhaps the greatest female blues singer of all time, as these meticulously restored sides from the very apex of her career in 1927 so divinely prove. At six feet tall and over 200 pounds, she belted out the blues of America's poor and downtrodden with a passion not heard before or since. In her short lifetime (she died in a car accident at age 42), she made close to 200 recordings, teaming up with just about every talented black musician of her day, including Clarence Williams, Charlie Green, Joe Smith, James P. Johnson, Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, to name just a few. The 'Empress of the Blues' fought her way to the top of the recording industry to become the biggest selling and highest paid black recording artist of the roaring twenties, and it was also in no small part thanks to the sales of Smith's 'race records' that Columbia Records was saved from bankruptcy. These recordings all made in New York City in 1927 include her best known sides, including 'Back Water Blues', 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out', and 'After You've Gone'."
Artist:
SMITH, BESSIE
Title:
Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind
Label:
MONK (ITALY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$22.00
Catalog #:
MK 337LP
"Born into poverty in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1894, the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith, began singing on street corners for change, but by 1912 she was performing with Ma Rainey's travelling show, fast on her way to becoming one of the most popular singers on the vaudeville circuit. Her 1923 debut single for Columbia Records ('Gulf Coast Blues/Down Hearted Blues') sold 800,000 copies across racial lines, to both black and white audiences. By the time the sides on this LP were recorded in 1928 in NYC, Smith was the highest-paid/biggest-selling black recording artist in the world, travelling to performances in her own railway car and even saving Columbia from bankruptcy thanks to the sale of her records. Her 'Empty Bed Blues,' featured here along with some lesser-known (but by no means lesser) recordings, is one of only three Smith recordings to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame."
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