Bessie Smith. side 1: Backwater Blues; side 2: Them "Has Been" Blues (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 105). 78rpm. Side 1 was originally recorded in 1927 and released on Columbia 14195-D. Side 2 was ...

Blues singer Bessie Smith’s “Backwater Blues” is often connected to the well-known Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which devastated predominantly Black communities in Arkansas, Mississippi and ...

Backwater Blues, one of San Diego's top blues bands, performs under the stars at Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens. The band blends rock, soul, funk, and R&B in this two-night outdoor concert ...

Dynamic vocalist Reid in 62' with the Count Basie Orchestra: Count Basie: piano; Marshal Royal & Frank Wess: alto sax; Eric Dixon, Frank Foster, Frank Wess: tenor sax; Charlie Fowlkes: baritone sax; ...

Down the line: blues brilliance, displacement, and living under the shadow of levees -- Burning waters rise: Richard Wright's Blues Voice and the double environmental burden of race -- Racialized ...