A good man is hard to find? She aint never looked for me. I might have looked for her, but it would've taken me forever, considering I'm blind. Of course, I could just perk my ear up and listen for her. She's easy to recognize. If you want to hear the whole track, here it is right here.If you are interested in other free piano music mp3 downloads, try Free Mp3 Seeker.Enjoy this music now or lat...
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A good man is hard to find? She aint never looked for me. I might have looked for her, but it would've taken me forever, considering I'm blind. Of course, I could just perk my ear up and listen for her. She's easy to recognize. If you want to hear the whole track, here it is right here.If you are interested in other free piano music mp3 downloads, try Free Mp3 Seeker.Enjoy this music now or lat...
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My folks told me the story of a musician they knew back in Kansas City in the 30's.She became a huge star after they met her. But in 1937 after her career went into decline she was seriously injured in a car wreck in rural Mississippi. And according to the story my folks told me, she bled to death because a white hospital would not treat her.Her name is Bessie Smith.I did not find out until a...
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The connections with Fletcher Henderson and his band on records remains one of the more inspiring recordings in the Bessie Smith discography. Here she found musicians who were truly on the same page with her thoughts and feelings. The results could be both moving and memorable. "Weeping Willow Blues" comes from 1924 during the waning days of the acoustical recording process. Yet the quality of ...
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Bessie Smith (1894 - 1937) was one of the best known artists who pioneered a style of singing that was down and out blues. She gained her experiences in performing on the vaudeville circuit complete with elaborate shows meant to entertain strictly until the main act came on stage. By 1920, Bessie Smith had gained confidence in her stage presence to give performances that were mesmerizing and me...
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Many people who knew Bessie Smith described her as a vulgar lady which, in all fairness, would have to relate to the hard times she enjoyed while performing on the road nearly every day of the year. It was a tough life and, as the saying goes, the tough get going. During her career, Bessie Smith had the uncanny knack for hypnotizing her audiences. One example she loved to tell was of a time whe...
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A spectacular presence on stage with a deep, rich clarion voice that projected the pain and hurt that resided deep in the souls of her listeners--these qualities were what made Bessie Smith one of the most compelling blues singers of the 1920's. Her records capture somewhat inadequately her enormous talents, for she was more a presence than a mere voice. One of Smith's greatest performances on ...
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I recently got hld of this track.Bessie Smith was (probably) born one hundred fourteen years ago this month...I've done a couple of posts featuring *Dory Previn*'s song about the tragic end of *Janis Joplin*'s short life, dying only months after she had paid for a stone for Bessie Smith's unmarked grave:she bought a stone for bessie smithshe bought bessie smith a stonebut she forgot she had not...
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