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...The first set opened with “You Put the Sugar in My Bowl”, a track from Giddens’ soon-to-be-released album You’re the One that references similarly titled songs by Bessie Smith and Nina Simone....
...“Everything Brown says is gospel to me....
...“Then you’ve got a disease that hits the black and brown community the worst. I think it’s compounded the situation. It’s a bad soup.”...
...But the song that brings the house down and brings the show back to its base — to the dragging poverty and worn-out struggle of Depression-era America — is Bessie Smith’s “Wasted Life Blues”, which Clarke...
...Van Vechten’s pictures of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston and Ethel Waters stress their hard-earned dignity....
...Big Bill Broonzy’s depiction of racism, “Black, Brown and White”, was followed by the love-at-first-sight froth of “The Trolley Song”....
...Female independence is a classic subject of women’s pop music, going back at least as far as a spirited Bessie Smith in 1923 singing the blues standard “’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do”....
...On arrival in America, her parents had changed their names, from Velvel Sklarski and Boysa Laschiner to William and Bessie Cohen....
...Last year Morrison won a Bessie – New York dance’s Oscars – for her performance of this 1994 solo, and it is clear why....
...Beirut is the latest place to enjoy its malted brown and white sliced. “We are trying to make great food that people want to eat....
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