Bessie Smith's Heart Brokenness Comes From the Heart

Speco s a part of bessie smith's story as well. She is singing by the age of 12 on the streets, and she joins travelling faudeville shows in tents. Her heart brokenness comes from the heart, and her raucous ties come from genuine inebriation and crazy, deep love. In this book, you describe what it was like to hold her face on the record cover against your own,. To see something that you finally knew as yours. It felt like the first time i ever properly belonged to my country.