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Bessie Smith: Love Me Daddy Blues, Mountain Top Blues, Louisiana Low Down Blues, Frosty Morning Blues, Boweevil Blues, Rocking Chair Blues, Woman's Trouble Blues, Rainy Weather Blues, Salt Water Blues. Bennie Moten: Baby Dear. Jelly Roll Morton: .Bucktown Blues. Johnny Bayersdorffer: The Waffle Man's Call.

Bessie Smith 1924 the voice itself as rich as an orchestra with a contour of musical power for which the lyrical content is almost always extreme. A comparison is not to later jazz singers but to Aretha Franklin and the Marvelettes..


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