Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues (Audio) 

Amazing legend. People who listen to this are awesome

Wow, I was impressed to find that the number 3 top recording of music in 1923 was a black woman from Tennessee and im excited to learn about Bessie Smith now, what a wonderful song and a trip back in time

100 years old and still powerful today.

She had such a talent for putting all her raw emotion into her singing 💙

This song was recorded 100 years ago!

I love you Bessie. Mexico no te conoce, pero pronto serás vuelta a recordar. Que Dios nos escuche

Gee, but it's hard to love someone When that someone don't love you I'm so disgusted, heartbroken, too I've got those down-hearted blues Once I was crazy 'bout a man He mistreated me all the time The next man I get has got To promise to be mine, all mine Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days It seems that trouble's going to follow me to my grave I ain't never loved but three men in my life I ain't never loved but three men in my life My Father, my brother and the man that wrecked my life It may be a week, it may be a month or two It may be a week, it may be a month or two But the day you quit me honey, it's coming home to you I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand I'm going to hold it until you didn't come under my command

It’s the crackle of the mic 🎤 😂❤

With Bessie Smith , the blues became a major force in American popular music . On her first test in the studio , in 1922 , she was rejected as too coarse - supposedly because she broke off a take to say , " I gotta spit . " Her first release , " Down Hearted Blues , " recorded in February 1923 , was one of the biggest - selling records of the year , and despite the usually short - lived tastes of the record - buying public , she continued to be one of the major recording artists of the 1920s . She had learned some of her style from Ma Rainey , when she toured with her as a 20 - year - old with The Rabbit's Foot Minstrels , but when she began her recording career , she was in her late 20s and had matured , gaining a range of phrasing and expression that went beyond any of the other classic blues performers . Within a year , she was outselling every other blues artist . the early 1930s , despite the wear on her voice from overuse and too much alcohol , she did a last session - produced by John Hammond - with Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden . Her career was richly productive , and some of her brooding presence was captured in the short film St. Louis Blues , where , after a raffish plot encumbered with most of the period's racial stereotypes , she is shown performing the song in a bar with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra accompanying her and the Hall - Johnson choir joining in from the tables around her . It is an unforgettable glimpse of one of popular music's most significant performers . " Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out " is one of her classic songs , done in the late 1920s when her voice had darkened , and it opens with an eloquent statement of the verse by cornetist Ed Allen , who was working with the Williams studio groups at this time . Her recording has been imitated by hundreds of other singers , but no one has caught the introspection and brooding power of Bessie's performance .

Bessie is new to me today. I am 40 and white. And I love her music and voice. ❤

That was Bessie Smith singing her first song for Columbia Records. (1923-1931)

Her voice is so calming 🙂

Paris Texas

She's so real

What a lovely voice

It's so great to find this music here and listen to this amazing and very well recorded part of blues history.

Such a powerful but so beautiful voice!! Much talent even back those many years ago, it's still great!!❤

the best

Bessie Smith was a friend of mine 😃

Love, love, love Bessie! I also want that dress.

I don't listen much to the music we have today, but I do think I will with these

Almost 100 years!

This song is now in the public domain!

That's good stuff....

Voz conmovedora....prescindía del micrófono...volumen y coloratura impresionantes...!!!!...imaginen con las calidades de grabación actual...

And their alot of them, thank God! 👍

My late friend Jerry told me he sat on her lap when he was little.

Gee, but it's hard to love someone when that someone don't love you! I'm so disgusted, heart-broken, too; I've got those down-hearted blues; Once I was crazy 'bout a man; he mistreated me all the time The next man I get has got to promise me to be mine, all mine! Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days; It seems like trouble going to follow me to my grave I ain't never loved but three men in my life; I ain't never loved but three men in my life: My father, my brother, the man that wrecked my life It may be a week, it may be a month or two It may be a week, it may be a month or two But the day you quit me, honey, it's comin' home to you I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand I'm gonna hold it until you meet some of my demands

1.5 speed>>>

Sounds boring at first. Play it all the way thru and you will be hooked. You may wake up hearing this in your head like I do.

The National Recording Registry brought me here

Si estoy aquí por Kevin kaarl... :) Alguien más? :0

Gigante!

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This cool Ig

Nice.

Grande.

👍👍👍

lol

Pick up a copy of Nat Hentoff's 'Hear me talking' to you' - an amazing compendium of first-person insights and comments into the founders of blues and jazz - and hear what they say about Bessie. They confirm her as The Matriarch of the blues.

Gente en 1923: El blues del campo a evolucionado c:

Love the blue's ❤ Next

If I made an anime the last episode will be this name "Downhearted Blues" just like jojos Part 6 "What a Wonderful World"

awesome.. i wanna cover this on bass guitar . does anyone know the tab?

Blues nada qué misma.

La vengo a escuchar por el Kevin Karl

Murió malamente en un accidente de autos....y...el hospital negó atención...era negra.....ganaba mucho...por entonces tenía un Lincoln de US 5000...no cualquiera.

0:12

Really....date please....

this is a terrible prophecy. I would not be surprised if Stevie Ray Vaughan got the band name from the song ‘ Double Trouble’ I have no proof .

Looks like lizzo

this is atrocious. yëat better.