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Good question but I have NO CLUE as well!!
Bunches! Too many to mention. She was the most popular female blues artist of the 1920's. Look up a discography of Bessie. Her first record was a huge smash success, "Downhearted Blues".
Thinking blues is a 12 bar song. 12 bar is always made up from 3 chords such as A D and E or G C and D (depending on the key sang in)
1 : she was Singer of "Blues".2 : She was signed by 'Columbia records' in 1923 and her first session for Columbia was February, 15 ,1923.3 : "Gulfcoast Blues" and "downhearted Blues".4 : She became to be known as " the queen of the Blues".
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Good question but I have NO CLUE as well!!
because its a slow song
Bunches! Too many to mention. She was the most popular female blues artist of the 1920's. Look up a discography of Bessie. Her first record was a huge smash success, "Downhearted Blues".
Bessie Smith.
Thinking blues is a 12 bar song. 12 bar is always made up from 3 chords such as A D and E or G C and D (depending on the key sang in)
Bessie Smith has written: 'Bessie Smith, empress of the blues' -- subject(s): Blues (Music), Popular music
1 : she was Singer of "Blues".2 : She was signed by 'Columbia records' in 1923 and her first session for Columbia was February, 15 ,1923.3 : "Gulfcoast Blues" and "downhearted Blues".4 : She became to be known as " the queen of the Blues".
Bessie Smith was known as "the Empress of the Blues".
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There are some differences of opinion. A Wikipedia article lists it as written by Bessie Smith in 1927, but there's also a YouTube recording of her singing it in 1923. Several other sources list it (a slightly different version) as a blues song that's "traditional", and presumably, older.
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