Ah the Blues: yeah, I just loves me some dark music :redface:
Dinah Washington one did a Bessie Smith songbook for Verve, which I owned on both LP and CD. It stays today as music files on my EHD. The best song on the album, IMO,
is this, but the most personally memorable song is
After You've Gone. Here's Nina Simone
hitting it out of the park.
Billie Holiday tragically lived the Blues and didn't just sing them:
Billie's Blues
Gloomy Sunday
...and everything else she ever did
I'm not sure if Tom Waits counts or not, but I think he's one of the greatest Blues songwriters/singers ever:
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Blue Valentines
Invitation to the Blues