This expressive blues "empress" was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee around 1894
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1894 ...and the Man # Quiz # Question - YouTube  Jun 29, 2016 ... This expressive blues empress was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee around 1894 # Quiz # Question. 0:28. Amazing Videos. No views...
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SMITH, Bessie: St. Louis Blues (1924-25) - Naxos  Born 15 April 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Bessie Smith never knew her ... the South for her powerful voice and highly expressive way of singing the blues. ... of both the recording equipment and their accompanists, the Empress simply...
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J! Archive - Show #3386, aired 1999-05-03  This expressive blues "empress" was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee around 1894. $600, 25. 1964: William Edward Miller. $600, 21. This junior, the son of a...
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Bessie Smith - Singer - Biography.com  Aug 16, 2016 ... AKA: Bessie Smith; Nickname: "Empress of the Blues"; Originally: Elizabeth Smith ... Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 15, 1894. ... Around 1906, her mother and two of her brothers died and Smith...
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Bessie Smith (1894-1937) by Katia Purnell on Prezi  Nov 23, 2015 ... I was born in Chattanooga, TN on April 15, 1894. ... <http://www.biography.com/people/bessie-smith-9486520#the-empress-of-the-blues>.
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The Official Tennessee State Quarter - The US50  The design incorporates musical instruments and a score with the inscription "Musical ... The fiddle represents the Appalachian music of east Tennessee, the trumpet stands for the blues of west Tennessee for which Memphis is famous, and the guitar is for central Tennessee, home to Nashville, the capital of country music.
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Hank Williams - Wikipedia  Hiram King "Hank" Williams was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Regarded as ..... On June 11, 1949, Williams made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry, where he became the first performer to receive six encores. ... Williams released seven hit songs after "Lovesick Blues", including "Wedding Bells", "Mind Your...
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B.B. King Blues Club & Grill - B.B. KING - Oct 23, 2013  Since B.B. started recording in the late 1940's, he has released over 60 albums ... one R & B hits, 1951's "Three O'Clock Blues", and 1952's "You Don't Know Me", and ... With his guitar and $2.50, he hitchhiked north to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1947 ... Soon after his number one hit, "Three O'Clock Blues", B.B. began touring...
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Empress of the Blues - Riverwalk Jazz - Stanford University Libraries  Empress of the Blues: The Life and Music of Bessie Smith ... Chris Albertson, the author of her biography Bessie, believes Smith arrived at her blues style on her...
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Linda Ronstadt - Wikipedia  Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American popular music singer. She has ... In total, she has released over 30 studio albums and 15 compilation or ... This success did not translate to the UK, with only her single "Blue Bayou" ..... Ronstadt became what author Gerri Hirshey called the first "arena-class rock...
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The Complete Columbia Recordings - Bessie Smith | Songs ...  Nov 6, 2012 ... As part of its Complete Recordings series, Sony Legacy has ... "Empress of the Blues," and almost singlehandedly created a mass ... While the general populace will be familiar with her hits such as ... of some of the most legendary names in the early history of jazz. ..... 15. Thinking Blues ... Spider Man Blues.
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Blues Blast Magazine | Issue 9-23 June 4, 2015  Jun 4, 2015 ... Marilyn Stringer has photos from the 36th Blues Music Awards. .... Bobby has played or headlined dozens of major festivals and .... He also left AIR in the songs ..... Although there was more music up and down Beale Street, our ... out a truly sweet sound that provides a back drop for this fine harp master.
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Tracing the evolution of the blues - The Boston Globe - Boston.com  Mar 9, 2004 ... Home >; A&E >; Books ... "Up until I was 25," wrote Eric Clapton, one of Johnson's latter-day disciples, ... After he married young, his wife died in childbirth. ... scored a hit in 1959 on Johnson's shuffle "Sweet Home Chicago," an ... of his work, entitled "The King of the Delta Blues Singers," which grabbed,...
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Josephine Baker - Wikipedia  Josephine Baker was a French dancer, jazz and pop music singer, and actress, who came to be known in various circles as the "Black Pearl", "Bronze Venus" "Jazz Queen", and even the "Creole Goddess". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she renounced her U.S. citizenship to become a citizen of France in 1937. ... Although she left Willie Baker when her vaudeville troupe was booked into a...
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Beale Street Brass Notes - Beale Street  Klein was classmate of Elvis Presley at Humes High School, and now hosts an ... Around this time, blues musician Son House moved to Robinsonville and Johnson ... He won a Grammy Award for The Thrill Is Gone, which was later marked .... Stokes died of a stroke in Memphis, Tennessee on September 12, 1955.
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G. Mick Smith, PhD: 05/23/16  May 23, 2016 ... She was known as the "Empress of the Blues" Read carefully on p. .... Okeh Records recording by singer Mamie Smith (no relation) pointed to a ..... It was a boom time in Chicago and though race relations were poor, the ...... for Edward Albee's 1959 one-act play The Death of Bessie Smith. ...... Examining
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Wikipedia  Sam John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1911  January 30, 1982)was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 71 on its list of the 100 greatest ... (Hopkins had another cousin, the Texas electric blues guitarist Frankie Lee...
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Blues Bands - The Atlanta Blues Society  He was the first white musician in Muddy Waters band and lived in Muddy Waters house ... Julie and Kathie are well-known in the Atlanta and Athens area for their ... to the rockin' Blues in Macon, Ga., from the classic sound of the Memphis Blues .... rock and roll still rocked and embraced the blues roots from which it sprang.
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YesterYear Radio's Big Band Live Internet Broadcasts - Tex Beneke  Beneke started playing saxophone when he was nine, going from soprano to alto to tenor saxophones and staying with the latter. ... On August 1, 1939, Tex Beneke solos on the recording the Glenn Miller band made of the ... In 1942, Glenn Miller's orchestra won the first Gold Record for "Chattanooga Choo Choo", a song...
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On July 18th, 1953, Truck driver Elvis Presley made his first ever ...  The so-called vanity disc, was a gift for his mother. | See more about Elvis Presley, July 18th and Truck Drivers. ... My Happiness (Elvis' first recording, recorded privately for his mother in 1953) .... Service in Memphis, TN, ostensibly to record a song for his mother's birthday ... Some great pics of Elvis relaxing at home in 1956.
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Dr Robert Muller - 1960s Psychedelic Hippie Culture and Music ...  Jun 27, 2008 ... When Bob Marley was around 10, a little boy nicknamed Bunny moved to Nine Mile ... "The Godfather of Soul," charismatic singer/songwriter James Brown is an ..... The five-piece act consisted of Hackett and bassist Mike Rutherford, keyboardist .... Suite Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills & Nash - 1969, #21