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Bessie Smith
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Bessie Smith
  • By: Jackie Kay
  • Narrator: Jackie Kay
  • Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2021
  • Language: English
A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography of the Empress of the Blues. There... Read more

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