She sings the song “Lost Your Head Blues strongly and from deep within her center. She made the country blues sophisticated and brought the rural blues into the city. Performance Style Bessie Smith was a jazz and blues singer. The pair specializes in weaving the soprano voice and lute into one musical thread. A video of the performance was recorded live at Sint-Pieterskerk, Leuven, Belgium. A beautiful and touching performance is done by the soprano Valeria Mignace with lute player Alfonso Marin. Some think this was especially designed for a dance called the paven. This song is a 17th century song and like the other songs of the time is structured for a dance. He composed and played songs for the lute. “Flow my Tears” was written by John Dowland who was born in England in 1563. The instrumentalists were trombonist Charlie Green and cornetist Joe Smith the pianist may have been James P. The style is down home blues from the South with a city feel. Frank Music ASCAP published the song in 1926. It was sung and written by Bessie Smith, a black singer from Chattanooga, Tennessee who became known as the Empress of the Blues. “Lost Your Head Blues” was popular during the last half of the Roaring Twenties.
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