1929
BLUE SPIRIT BLUES * BESSIE SMITH * PHILLIPS 12233 * UK
Bessie Smith is backed by James P. Johnson on this
nightmarish Blues where she sings about her dream; a descent into hell. The song
was written by William Spencer, who wrote such outstanding classics as: Basin
Street Blues, Everybody Loves My Baby, I Ain't Got Nobody and Mahogany
Hall Stomp, to name but a few. The author Adam Gussow writes in: Seems
Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition, that the song Blue
Spirit Blues,
along with many others from the time, is a coded blues about lynching.
See also:
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| Nobody Knows You When Your Down And Out | Do Your Duty | Empty Bed Blues | I Used To Be Your Sweet Mama | The Gin House Blues |