Rory Block is the most celebrated living female acoustic blues artist. A Woman's Soul: A Tribute to Bessie Smith kicks off Power Women of the Blues, Rory Block's latest series of recordings dedicated...
Bessie Smith was not only the first significant female blues singer to emerge during the early electric recording era, but her influence and reputation is such that she is still rightly hailed as the...
Decades of blues and jazz vocalists sang in the shadow of the Empress, whose powerhouse voice still packs a wallop nearly 90 years later. Here are more than two hours of key cuts: her hits Nobody...
From her first cuts to her last, this set rolls out the red carpet for the stunning singer who's still the Empress of the Blues! Her smash Down Hearted Blues joins her '20s hits Gulf Coast Blues;...
Smith,Bessie Sweet Mistreater CD1. Down Hearted Blues 2. Baby Won't You Please Come Home 3. Jail House Blues 4. Far Away Blues 5. Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time 6. Any Woman's Blues 7. Mistreating...