The Makar of Scotland, their poet laureate, from 2016 to 2021, Jackie Kay discusses growing up Black and adopted in an all-white section of Glasgow. Her imaginary family included Bessie Smith. She ...

Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally ...

Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally ...

Bessie Smith was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often ...