Bessie Smith - Send Me To The 'lectric Chair

[MissCherryVee]

Wow, just wow!! I love this over the Dinah Washington one, she sounds like she really feels it! Love love lover it!!! x

[zookeeper1959]

what a woman! the white people hospital would'nt take her and it is so stupid. i hope 2011 won't be like that for anybody, regardless of their money, or color, or age.

[sonicscreamingblue]

The lyrics are badass.

[HarborGuy]

Really great early sound fo the Blues and "comedic Jazz" back up. Love it!

[SirJekyllAppliance]

love the 'sizzle' at the end from the crackly grooves :o)

[lillian92488]

There’s something truly beautiful about the depth of the lyrics and the emotion Bessie Smith brings to them.  She was always fantastic at finding the pain and vulnerability in a song.

[fatmanquawn]

this is wounderful

[irateofwatford]

Sorry ebonics4everyone, I made a fairly uncontentious remark about the song. I wasn't making any big claims. I wasn't trying to knock anyone off their perch - but you feel the urge to contradict me. You are of course welcome to do this but I can't understand the point you are trying to make.

[ebonics4everyone]

Wow. These lyrics are positively Satanic. She wants to die quick, so she can burn in hell? Iron Maiden, eat your heart out!

[blinkingblonde]

I first heard this song on Mark Lamaar's 'God's Jukebox@ on bbc radio 2

Fantastic !!

thanks for posting :-)

[aerocoin2]

I like thi s version even more than that by Dave Bromberg.

[SW3ETsummer]

I love bessie smith and this song haha. such an amazing voice

[Ravenluc]

Overpowered by guilt...

[Whitestripeslvr]

WOW! That is INTENSE! I Love it!!!

[2conquer]

Love this song, but I think Dinah Washington may have improved on it. Hers is not as raw vocally, but with her video she tells the story with her eyes.

[blinkingblonde]

@2conquer i don't suppose bessie would have had much of a chance to tell the story with her eys as this was 1927 .. not many tv shows on then :p lol

[ebonics4everyone]

@blinkingblonde No crap. People in general are so historically illiterate it's laughable. No offense, but pick up a book or something.

[blinkingblonde]

@ebonics4everyone lol..pick up  a book?? ... ty for the advice ... but my advice to you is took pick up the thread!! ..

i.e see what remark I was responding to :p

[Pozelanore]

hear also david bromberg version if you can find a decent recording of that

[irateofwatford]

What a frightening song. The distilled essence of remorse.

[Pozelanore]

DISTILLED ESSENCE OF REMORSE! That is beautiful ....

[ebonics4everyone]

@irateofwatford Yes, and Black Sabbath thought they were the first band to sing about burning in Hell. Hardly.

[marionnewberry]

My father told me Bessie Smith was left to die in the street after anaccident because she was black. What a waste of life and talent!! God help us all from man's inhumanity to man.

[kmc1221]

zexi

[Achbar]

I love this song!

[parthenopus]

This is damn good