Have to admit that though sixties and seventies blues and rock are my favourite things to listen to, I got very little knowledge on the American heroes that was behind and in that way created the genres from the twenties and on. Here's a really early one with twelve cuts recorded 1923 and 1925. At first listen I don't recognize a lot of the much later blues or rock I'm accustomed to, but very nice to be able to hear early stuff from my fathers biggest idol Louis Armstrong (1901-71) together with Bessie Smith (1894-1937), one of the most successful US female blues/jazz singers in the twenties. The 1923 cuts were captured through acoustic recordings - more on that here https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-jukebox/articles-and-essays/acoustical-recording/ . Listening now and at the same time picturing how the singer and musicians gathered before the metal horn trying to make the best sounds possible make my heart warm. And even if the equipment and audio were lightyears from todays standards they got through with so much feeling. That's true artistery! Hard to pick favourites since it all comes together for me, like an inseparable weave, but the earliest recordings - "Downhearted Blues" and "Jailhouse Blues" - with just her and a pianist are touching and "St. Louis Blues", partly carried by Louis Armstrong on cornet and Fred Longshow on harmonium still today a killer. This was first released 1951 in US and Canada on Columbia (GL 503), then issued and/or reissued on vinyl in UK, Italy and Norway through the fifties and sixties. Italian 2015 CD on Corriere Della Sera (CD 14). First Dutch had label as shown here in a laminated flip/back cover. (FÄV*) (HÖLX*) (NYFÖ*)
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