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The Bessie Smith Companion
open our order pageEdward Brooks
Bayou Press, 1989 (first published in 1982)
Paperback. 250pp
£22.50

A citical and detailed appreciation of the recordings made between 1923 and 1933 by the foremost blues singer of her day. With discography.

With a foreword by George Melly.

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