I've Just Immersed Myself in Bessie Smith's Recordings

I immersed myself in all bessie's recordings, you know, a hundred and 60 different songs. I like tracing the blues blood line back to its former back to its roots. The work song and the slave song and the spiritual all influenced the blues. And bessie herself went to church. That would have influenced the way that she sang as well,. She was explaining their lives back to them. Those blues, they told of no no good, no cind men. But they told of death. They told of being haunted. There were women loving women in the blues. If you were to choose between, nobody knows you, down and out, a heart broken song and give