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Bessie
- By: Chris Albertson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the "Empress of the Blues", is considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time. She was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest-paid African American performer of the Roaring '20s. Chris Albertson's revised and expanded edition of the biography of this extraordinary artist debunks many of the myths that have circulated since her untimely death in 1937.
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First-rate bio of a first-rate blues legend
- By tru britty on 07-07-15
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Bessie
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-19-14
- Language: English
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Bessie's Resurrection
- By: Kimberly A. Collins
- Narrated by: Kimberly A. Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Bessie's Resurrection gives voice to Richard Wright's fictional character Bessie Mears from his novel Native Son (1940). These poems offer Bessie room to articulate her experiences as an African American woman and how she suffers in her unenviable position, powerless and unseen. Here, Bessie's fictive character is self actualized by two historical African American trailblazers: Bessie Coleman and Bessie Smith who lived during the same time period when Bessie's story takes place.
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Bessie's Resurrection
- Narrated by: Kimberly A. Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-17-21
- Language: English
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Bessie Smith
- A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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There has never been anyone else like Bessie Smith. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1894 and orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on street corners before becoming a big name in traveling shows. In 1923, she made her first recording for the newly founded Columbia Records. It sold 780,000 copies and catapulted her to fame. Known for her unmatched vocal talent, her timeless and personal blues narratives, her tough persona, and her ability to enrapture audiences with her raw voice, the Empress of the Blues remains a force and an enigma.
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Phenomenal
- By kristina on 11-10-21
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Bessie Smith
- A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-28-21
- Language: English
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Bessie Smith
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Jackie Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows. In 1923 she made her first recording for a new start-up called Columbia Records. It sold 780,000 copies and made her a star. Smith's life was notoriously difficult. As a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, Jackie Kay found in Bessie someone with whom she could identify and who she could idolise. In this remarkable book Kay mixes biography, fiction, poetry and prose to create an enthralling account of an extraordinary life.
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Bessie Smith
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Jackie Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-16-21
- Language: English
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