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    Lost Your Head Blues
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    St. Louis Blues
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Behind the Facade - Bessie Smith, Vol. 2

Feb 2012
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Behind the Facade - Bessie Smith, Vol. 1

Feb 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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