Bessie Smith

I’d rather listen to Bessie Smith’s “I Ain’t Go Nobody” than David Lee Roth’s any day. I realize that’s not saying much. Also, the rumor is that she liked girls. For a black woman in the 1920s, that’s saying kind of a lot.

Bessie Smith AllMusic page

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