Careless Love [Digipak]

Performer: Bessie Smith
Artist: Clarence Williams; Louis Armstrong; Fletcher Henderson; Coleman Hawkins
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Personnel: Bessie Smith (vocals); Bessie Smith; Lincoln Conaway (guitar); Charlie Dixon (banjo); Robert Robbins (violin); Ernest Elliott, George Baquet, Buster Brown (clarinet); Garvin Bushell (alto saxophone); Greely Walton (tenor saxophone); Joe "Fox" Smith (trumpet); Ed Allen (cornet); Jimmy Harrison, Charlie Green (trombone); Fred Longshaw (piano, reed organ); Irving Johns, James P. Johnson, Jimmy Jones (piano); Coleman Hawkins (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Buster Bailey (clarinet); Louis Armstrong (cornet); Clarence Williams, Fletcher Henderson, Porter Grainger (piano). Liner Note Author: Russell Beecher.

The original tough-mama prototype for nearly every female blues singer to come, hard-living, big-voiced Bessie Smith was also the first blues singer with a mega-hit recording career, achieved in part via collaborations with some of the most notable musicians of her era. In her prime in the 1920s and 1930s, she was the highest-paid black entertainer in the U.S., and her influence persists to this day.

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