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sarvsen (October 10, 2008 at 12:57 pm)
nice
Garboskindredspirit (October 9, 2008 at 11:35 pm)
This music really does something to me. I don't feel rap or hip hop much. It just doesn't speak to me the way this music does. And Bessie Smith had such a tremendous voice... No one could EVER doubt a word that she sings. A person just knows it's from the heart and soul. It's raw and it's passionate. Powerful singing and music.
spliff4peace (October 9, 2008 at 10:19 am)
pepole who dont have any feelings 4/this deep blues music in my opinion r/not lovers of music...these blues singers had style deep passion and spoke 2/break all racist barriers in this world .good and bad in all race also...quality BESSIE SMITH just 1/of many female LEGENEDS..BLESSED..PEACE..
Jest (October 7, 2008 at 5:52 am)
that's been proven to be untrue in recent years. Interesting how the lie keeps going though. it's been a rumor for a heck of long time.
ribonucleic (October 6, 2008 at 12:08 am)
I was enthralled from the first seconds of this. Then the Hollywood shit started and I couldn't bear it. So: two minutes or so of legendary film footage. I think Bessie Smith had the most lost potential of any figure in American popular music history.
OneBlackRose45 (October 2, 2008 at 12:21 am)
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
cssilent (September 30, 2008 at 3:14 pm)
yeah, tons of 'according to legend' things piss me off because they have a huge basis on the time period and rumors rather than fact...
jeffersonzeppelin (September 26, 2008 at 6:15 pm)
wowim in love with her voiceso beautiful (L)
OnThisDayInHistory (September 26, 2008 at 1:34 pm)
Sep 26 1937 The Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith, sustains grave injuries in a traffic accident on US Highway 61. She is taken to a colored hospital in Clarksdale, Mississippi and her arm amputated. Smith dies later that day from blood loss. According to legend, Bessie had been refused treatment by a closer, whites-only hospital. IF THAT DONT PISS YOU OFF!
rayanmiley (September 26, 2008 at 12:07 am)
love it!- Ashley yo |
