Blue Spirit Blues: A tribute to Bessie Smith at Jungle Electric

Following the last sell-out session, Blue Spirit Blues returns for another fantastic tribute to the queen of blues, Bessie Smith.

Sil Fiore and Ian Montague return to recreate this amazing event!
Bessie Smith (born April 15, 1894, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.—died September 26, 1937, Clarksdale, Mississippi) was an American singer and one of the greatest blues vocalists.
Smith grew up in poverty and obscurity. She may have made her first public appearance at the age of eight or nine at the Ivory Theatre in her hometown. About 1913 she toured in a show with Ma Rainey, one of the first of the great blues singers, from whom she received some training. For several years Smith traveled through the South singing in tent shows and bars and theatres in small towns and in such cities as Birmingham, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; and Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. After 1920 she made her home in Philadelphia, and it was there that she was first heard by Clarence Williams, a representative of Columbia Records.