Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, nicknamed The Empress of the Blues.

jommyteelones:

Uhm did I just find a classical cover of katy perry’s E.T. say what??

Bastille - Laura Palmer

“What a year and what a night 
What terrifying final sights 
Put out your beating heart”

onlyalittlelion:

if I die in Raleigh, at least I will die free | a bluegrass/alt-country/americana mix

Bar’s on Fire . Bottle Rockets | Coal War . Joshua James | Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby . Gillian Welch & Allison Krauss | Bare Bones . Hot Damn Scandal | Darken My Door . Lucero | American Made Machine . Cary Ann Hearst | I will Rise Up . Lyle Lovett | Don’t Look Back . Kasey Anderson | Ghost . I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House | You Will Be My Ain True Love . Allison Krauss | Curs in the Weeds . Horse Feathers | Hangman . Ha Ha Tonka | Make Your Bed . Neko Case | Dead Flowers . Deer Tick | Hear the Hills . North Mississippi Allstars | Rocks and Water . Deb Talan | At the Crossroads . Bottle Rockets | Hey Darlin’ Do You Gamble . Lucero | Humdinger . Old Crow Medicine Show | Little Rock Star . Lucinda Williams | Let it Roll . North Mississippi Allstars | Death Trip . Bad Livers | Hell’s Bells . Cary Ann Hearst | Old Adam . Hem | Alone and Forsaken . Neko Case | Meltdown . Slobberbone | Poison & Wine . The Civil Wars | Nobody Haunts Me Like You . Reckless Kelly | Poor Man’s House . Patty Griffin | Precious Time . Bad Livers | Honey Bee . Lucinda Williams | Lumberlung . Slobberbone | Sawyer . Grey DeLisle | Where is My Mind . Trampled by Turtles | Single Drop of Honey . Abigail Washburn | Smith Hill . Deer Tick | Trapeze . Patty Griffin | Railroad Blues . Morgan O’ Kane | Poison & Snakes . Liz Janes | St. Nicks on the Fourth in a Fervor . Ha Ha Tonka | Wagon Wheel . Old Crow Medicine show | Turtle Dove . Grey DeLisle | Whiskey Bottle . Uncle Tupelo | Barton Hollow . The Civil Wars | Wicked Twisted Road . Reckless Kelly | Wolf Like Me . Lera Lynn

jimmynovaks:

miserable and poor. [southern gothic]

for the hellfire sermons and twister-sick skies of the christ-haunted south | listen.

when jesus comes - uncle sinner / the dust storm - those poor bastards / devil do - holly golightly & the brokeoffs / earth died screaming - tom waits / snake song - isobel campbell and mark lanegan / wolfgang - elliott brood / devil at the door - highlonesome / broken throat blues - antic clay / like a mountain - timber timbre / a chi sa dove sara - tarantella / to make a ring - woven hand and ultima vez / troubles - smoke fairies / 7 devils - goddamn gallows / luisa’s bones - crooked fingers / last kind words - geeshie wiley / someday - blanche / you will be my ain true love - alison krauss

jeandujardin:

( CUE THE STRINGS ) [download/2] a mix for string lovers

(♪) motherhood - alexandre desplat (♪) prospector’s quartet - jonny greenwood (♪) the falling orchestra - max richter (♪) fratres - arvo part (♪) 503 - joshua bell & hans zimmer (♪) silent movie - danny elfman (♪) power, seduction, cries - clint mansell (♪) la vie quotidienne - yann tiersen (♪) run (snow patrol) - vitamin string quartet (♪) nothing is impossible - james newton howard (♪) sarajevo - max richter (♪) what are you asking me? - james newton howard (♪) full moon - alexandre desplat (♪) winter 3 - max richter (x) oceano (josh groban) - vitamin string quartet (♪) the wedding - james newton howard (♪) november - max richter (♪) fix you (coldplay) - vitamin string quartet (♪) the gravel road - james newton howard (♪) hallelujah (paramore) - vitamin string quartet (♪) the nature of daylight - max richter (♪) not in blood, but in bond - hans zimmer (♪) hw/hope of new fields - jonny greenwood ****bonus: (♪) carry on my wayward son (kansas) - vitamin string quartet (♪) my body is a cage - peter gabriel