Blues singer Bessie Smith was born and raised in the slums of Chattanooga, Tennessee. She sang of the ills at the heart of the black woman's life; of their efforts to cope with betrayal and desertion. Her life-long defiance of the white world found expression both in her extraordinary stage presence and in her uninhibited off-stage behaviour.

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  Author: Elaine Feinstein
  Read by: Gretel Davis
  Run time: 2 hours, 25 mins 
  Number of CDs: 1
   

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