Down Hearted Blues

Mountain Top Blues I Got What It Takes Outside Of That Poor Man's Blues Muddy Water A Mississippi Moan Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl Chicago Bound Blues Remastered Devil's Gonna Git You Take Me for a Buggy Ride Mama's Got The Blues Down In The Dumps Backwater Blues Backwater Blues Beale Street Mama Gimme a Pigfoot Rocking Chair Blues Graveyard Dream Blues Mountain Top Blues I Got What It Takes Outside Of That Poor Man's Blues Muddy Water A Mississippi Moan Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl Chicago Bound Blues Remastered Devil's Gonna Git You Take Me for a Buggy Ride Mama's Got The Blues Down In The Dumps Backwater Blues Backwater Blues Beale Street Mama Gimme a Pigfoot Rocking Chair Blues Graveyard Dream Blues Listen to enough Bessie Smith, though, and the minor-key background drone starts sounding symphonic and important and powerful.

I guess time does heal all wounds, but I liked that Bessie Smith kept me rubbing at the scar that formed after he left.

She kept me tracing the peculiar grain of what he did to me until it felt talismanic— until it felt as tragic and hilarious as it possibly could. And after all the lies that man told me, Bessie Smith is all the truth I need.

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