WHITE SULPHUR SRINGS — The White Sulphur Springs Public Library will host a living history performance portraying blues legend Bessie Smith at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. Singer and actress Doris Fields ...
Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally ...
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ENID, Okla. — Residents attending Enid Chautauqua on Friday, June 13, 2025, learned about the trials and tribulations of the “Empress of the Blues.” Scholar Rebecca Marks Jimerson portrayed Bessie ...
Ma Rainey and her band the Rabbit Foot Minstrels circa 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. Ma Rainey and her band the Rabbit Foot Minstrels circa 1924 in Chicago, Illinois.Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/ ...
“I wrung my hands and I wanted to scream / But when I woke up I found it was only a dream.” There she stood at Columbia’s studio in New York to record this song in September 1923. She and pianist ...
What are the blues? -- Ma Rainey -- Bessie Smith -- Blind Lemon Jefferson -- Leroy Carr -- Rabbit Brown -- Leadbelly -- Blind Willie Johnson -- Big Bill Broonzy ...
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