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Lost Your Head Blues
Lost Your Head Blues
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St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues
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St. Louis Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong)
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Kitchen Man
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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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