Today is the birthday of Empress of the Blues Bessie Smith. For more background on her, go here. And here she is singing one of the most seminal of classic blues classics: To find out more about the history of vaudeville, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:56AM on April 15, 2012