Episode 486: Spotlight on Bessie Smith - The Empress of the Blues (part 1 of 1)

Pacific Street BluesSpotlight on Bessie SmithJune 14, 20261. Janis Joplin / Black Mountain Blues2. Bob Dylan & The Band / Bessie Smith (Happy and Artie Traum)3. Dory Previn / (Janis Joplin bought a) Stone for Bessie Smith4. John Coltrane / Bessie's BluesInfluences 5. Ma Rainey / See See Rider Blues (Elvis Presley)6. Ida Cox / Wild Women Don't Have the Blues 7. Albert Hunter / Down Hearted Blues8. Maime Smith / Crazy Blues Duets: Charlie Green of Omaha9. Bessie Smith w/ Charlie Green / Empty Bed Blues10. Jim Croce / Charlie Green Play that Slide Trombone11. Bessie Smith w/ Louis Armstrong (trumpet) / St Louis Blues 12. Clara Smith w/ Bessie Smith / I'm Going Back to My Used to Be James P Johnson, The Invisible Pianist 13. Bessie Smith w/ James P Johnson / Back Water Blues 14. Fats Waller / Ain't Misbehavin' 15. Count Basie / April in Paris 16. Duke Ellington / Take the A Train (Billy Eckstine) Lieber & Stoller 17. Wilbert Harrison / Kansas City18. Kathy Tyree / Hound Dog 19. Elvis Presley / King Creole20. The Rolling Stones / Down Home Girl21. The Beatles / Young Blood John Hammond Sr. Legendary A&R Columbia Records22. Billie Holiday / Gimme a Beer and a Pigfoot23. Aretha Franklin / Soulville 24. Bruce Springsteen / Sandy (4th of July) 25. Lionel Hampton w/ Nat Cole Trio / House of Morgan Covers of Bessie Smith's Music26. Sue Foley / Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair 27. Ella Fitzgerald / Gulf Coast Blues 28. Della Reese / You've Been a Good Old Wagon 29. Etta James / Don't Cry Baby30. Bessie Smith / Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do 31. Rhiannon Giddens / You Put the Sugar in My Bowl 32. Rory Block / I'm Down in the Dumps 33. Kenny Wayne Shepherd / Back Water Blues