Bessie Smith: Them's Graveyard Words

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  • Label: Monk, 1927
  • Order number: 4977177
  • Release date: 13.1.2011
  1. 1 Preachin' The Blues
  2. 2 Back Water Blues
  3. 3 After You've Gone
  4. 4 Alexander's Ragtime Band
  5. 5 Muddy water (A Mississippi moan)
  6. 6 There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
  7. 7 Trombone Cholly
  8. 8 Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
  9. 9 Them's Graveyard Words
  10. 10 Hot springs blues
  11. 11 Sweet Mistreater
  12. 12 Lock And Key
  13. 13 Mean Old Bedbug Blues
  14. 14 A Good Man Is Hard To Find
  15. 15 Homeless Blues
  16. 16 Looking For My Man Blues
  17. 17 Dyin' By The Hour
  18. 18 Foolish Man Blues

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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“.

EUR 14.99*

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