Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, she is often regarded as
Popular Songs
1
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Bessie Smith
02:56
2
Sweet Mistreater
Bessie Smith, James P. Johnson
03:02
3
I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
Bessie Smith
02:46
4
He's Got Me Goin' (with James P. Johnson)
Bessie Smith, James P. Johnson
03:15
5
Yes Indeed He Do
Porter Grainger, Ernest Elliott, Bob Fuller, Bessie Smith
03:16
Albums
Dock Walsh, Jaybird Coleman, Thomas A. Dorsey, Bessie Smith, Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers, Studio pianist, Rube Bloom, Frank Hutchison, Will Ezell, Viola McCoy, Jimmy Blythe, Ed Bell, Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight, Johnny St. Cyr, Jim Jackson, Pink Anderson, Dick Justice, Robert Wilkins, Blind Willie Johnson, Freddie Keppard, Zez Confrey, Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers, Burnett & Rutherford, Sam McGee, Shirley Jones, Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport, Buddy Boy Hawkins, Wade Ward, Victoria Spivey, Tommy Johnson, Various Artists, James Reese Europe, Paul Whiteman, Jimmy O'Bryant, Blind Teddy Darby, Studio ensemble, Lee Morse, Len Spencer, Noble Sissle
