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

B. B. King

B. B. King gets kind of a bad reputation for being a “supper club” blues musician. I don’t know if that’s warranted or not. I do know that I wish old school musicians would stop recording duet albums with younger musicians to try to seem hip to a new generation. Dude, you’re already more hip than Clapton.

B. B. King AllMusic page