Throughout the 1920s, Bessie had few peers as a blues woman, and fewer still who could match the sales that her long string of 78s racked up. With one or sometimes two new releases a month, it would have been hard for anyone to catch her. The quality of those releases made it almost impossible. Bessie began recording in the acoustic era but was one of the frst artists to record using the new electrical process that was introduced in 1925. This Jasmine CD release brings you as many of Bessies frst year of electrical recordings as a) have survived and b) they could ft into one collection.
