Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues (1923)
“You gotta pay your dues if you want to sing the blues”… The Empress, an inimitable artist, greedy for everything, even sexually. Rich, powerful, arrogant, wicked… when black people couldn’t…
“I’m getting bored. Let’s all strip naked and do whatever comes to mind.” How she loved the Buffet Flats…
I would have wanted to die during a night at the Buffet Flats…
“The greatest blues singer in the world will never stop singing."
Janis, on August 8, 1970, had these words inscribed (just before she died) on her heroine’s grave. In fact, she gave her a decent tomb…
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“You gotta pay your dues if you want to sing the blues”… The Empress, an inimitable artist, greedy for everything, even sexually. Rich, powerful, arrogant, wicked… when black people couldn’t…
“I’m getting bored. Let’s all strip naked and do whatever comes to mind.” How she loved the Buffet Flats…
I would have wanted to die during a night at the Buffet Flats…
“The greatest blues singer in the world will never stop singing."
Janis, on August 8, 1970, had these words inscribed (just before she died) on her heroine’s grave. In fact, she gave her a decent tomb…
#omaggiparticolari (2)
IlConte
14 aug 24
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