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Bessie Smith wasn't the first of the classic blues singers to record, but once she did, she became the form's dominant force, w...

Bessie Smith, even on the evidence of her earliest recordings, well deserved the title "Empress of the Blues" for in the 19...

Listening to this collection, recorded from 1925 to 1928 as Bessie Smith's popularity grew, one only wishes that the recording techn...

The fourth of five volumes (the first four are two-CD sets) that reissue all of Bessie Smith's recordings traces her career from a pe...

Bessie Smith cut 160 sides for the Columbia and OKeh labels between 1923 and 1933, and the four previous two-CD/cassette box sets of ...