Empty Bed Blues

Bessie Smith · 1928 · Blues « sale » aux sous-entendus, Grammy Hall of Fame

Context

Recorded in New York on 20 March 1928 for Columbia, with Porter Grainger on piano and Charlie Green on trombone. With lyrics by J. C. Johnson full of sexual innuendo, it is Bessie Smith's most scandalous recording; it entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1983.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Classic blues (women singers), Blues, spirituals, work songs. Among the origins and influences of Classic blues: Blues, spirituals, work songs.

By the same artist

• Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Bessie Smith) (1929)
• St. Louis Blues (1925)
• Downhearted Blues (1923)

Sources

• EN: Empty Bed Blues

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