"Back Water Blues," Bessie Smith and James P. Johnson (1927)
"Back Water Blues," Bessie Smith and James P. Johnson (1927)
This elegant evening dress designed by the House of Chanel, with blue silk and fringe, matches ideally with the blues of Bessie Smith and James P. Johnson. In “Back Water Blues,” Bessie Smith...
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This elegant evening dress designed by the House of Chanel, with blue silk and fringe, matches ideally with the blues of Bessie Smith and James P. Johnson. In “Back Water Blues,” Bessie Smith sings of the “wind beginning to blow” and people with “no place to go.” It is a powerful blues recording, and one can imagine a young female listener heading out to hear Bessie Smith and James P. Johnson perform. Text by James Saltzman, Faculty, Manhattan School of Music
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- Evening Dress And Underslip
- blue silk chiffon with applied blue ombré silk fringe.
- Lent by Kent State University Museum, The Helen O. Borowitz Collection, KSUM....
- 70.2016.2
