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Artist:
Bessie Smith
Title:
Chattanooga Gal



Details:
This set is being reissued in brand new slimline rack-friendly packaging which keeps all of the detail and production values of the original PROPERBOX sets but with each CD packaged in mini LP sleeves. Bessie Smith's big beautiful voice and emotionally naked interpretation made her into one of the all-time stars of the gramophone record influencing talents as wide ranging as Billie Holiday Mahalia Jackson and Janis Joplin. This 4CD set includes all of her best known songs whose raw energy and emotion shine out across the decades and show just why she became such a star. Transcending the worlds of blues Gospel and popular song Bessie is a seminal figure in modern music and this box is the ultimate overview of her career

Label: Proper Boxes

This item was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 April, 2008