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John EckmanBessie Smith, Any Woman’s Blues, 1970 on ColumbiaThis is was the second in a series of five 2xLP releases on Columbia in 1970-1972 that covered Smith’s recordings for the label. These recordings were made between September 1923 and March 1930, all recorded in New York. Piano by Fletcher Henderson, Clarence Williams, Irving Johns, James Price Johnson, and Jimmy Jones. Other musicians include Don Redman (clarinet), Eddie Lang (guitar), Garvin Bushnell (alto sax, clarinet, soprano sax), Ed Allen (cornet), Arville Harris (tenor sax), Cyrus St. Clair (tuba), Charlie Green (trombone), and Louis Bacon (trumpet). Technical restoration by Larry Hiller and liner notes by Chris Albertson (author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bessie-Revised-expanded-Chris-Albertson/dp/0300107560" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bessie</a>). Great set of early Bessie Smith recordings in mono. My copy, via Academy Records in NYC, is a 1970 pressing<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/1920s" target="_blank">#1920s</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/1930" target="_blank">#1930</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/1970" target="_blank">#1970</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/1970s" target="_blank">#1970s</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/academy-records" target="_blank">#AcademyRecords</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/arville-harris" target="_blank">#ArvilleHarris</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/bessie-smith" target="_blank">#BessieSmith</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/charlie-green" target="_blank">#CharlieGreen</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/clarence-williams" target="_blank">#ClarenceWilliams</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/columbia" target="_blank">#Columbia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/cyrus-st-clair" target="_blank">#CyrusStClair</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/don-redman" target="_blank">#DonRedman</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/ed-allen" target="_blank">#EdAllen</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/eddie-lang" target="_blank">#EddieLang</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/fletcher-henderson" target="_blank">#FletcherHenderson</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/garvin-bushnell" target="_blank">#GarvinBushnell</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/irving-johns" target="_blank">#IrvingJohns</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/james-price-johnson" target="_blank">#JamesPriceJohnson</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/jimmy-jones" target="_blank">#JimmyJones</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/larry-hiller" target="_blank">#LarryHiller</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/nyc" target="_blank">#NYC</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/vinyl" target="_blank">#vinyl</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/vinylcollection" target="_blank">#vinylcollection</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://goatless.org/tag/vinylfinds" target="_blank">#vinylfinds</a>

MAbout Eddie Lang, guitarist<a href="https://mas.to/tags/EddieLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EddieLang</a> <a href="https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/hes-the-forgotten-father-of-guitar-solos-why-did-rolling-stones-250-greatest-guitarists-list-exclude-this-jazz-pioneer-173847" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/hes-the-forgotten-father-of-guitar-solos-why-did-rolling-stones-250-greatest-guitarists-list-exclude-this-jazz-pioneer-173847</a>

teledyn 𓂀Jazz guitar virtuoso Eddie Lang accompanies vocalist Ruth Etting in her 1932 short "A Regular Trouper."<a href="https://www.20sjazz.com/videos/ruth-etting-1/without-that-man.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.20sjazz.com/videos/ruth-etting-1/without-that-man.html</a>Eddie Lang, as usual, doesn't speak. His voice was so gravelly, Bing Crosby encouraged him to have a tonsillectomy, but sadly complications set in and Eddie died on the operating table.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/eddielang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eddielang</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/jazzguitarists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jazzguitarists</a>

Dr. Dani SanchezBlues men and their Guitars: Blind Willie Dunn (Gibson L-5), Lonnie Johnson (Kay Value Old Kaftsman), B.B. King (Gibson ES-335 AKA “Lucille”) and John Lee Hooker (Epiphone Zephyr) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroView</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlindWillieDunn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlindWillieDunn</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EddieLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EddieLang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LonnieJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LonnieJohnson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBKing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBKing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnLeeHooker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnLeeHooker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMonth</a>

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