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    Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer
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    St. Louis Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong)
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Down and Out Blues: The Bessie Smith Story

Apr 2013
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I'm Wild About That Thing (Original Recordings, 1929)

Aug 2012

Biography

This sometimes sultry, sometimes gut-wrenching "Empress of the Blues" was one of the genre's very first recording artists.

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Country-Blues BBQ

Furry Lewis, Bessie Smith, Son House and more lead our latest mixtape.
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Country-Blues BBQ

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