Book Interview: William Wall on debt, Communism, and 'Empty Bed Blues'
“I started thinking about the problem of debt — the national debt, personal debt, and so on. I thought the best way to write about debt is to personalise it."
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“I started thinking about the problem of debt — the national debt, personal debt, and so on. I thought the best way to write about debt is to personalise it."
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Bessie Smith, in full Elizabeth Smith, (born April 15, 1894?, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.—died September 26, 1937, Clarksdale, Mississippi), American singer, one of the greatest blues vocalists. Smith grew up in poverty and obscurity. She may have made a first public appearance at the age of eight or nine at the Ivory Theatre in her hometown. About 1913 she toured in a show with Ma Rainey, one of the first of the great blues singers, from whom she received some training. For several years Smith traveled through the South singing in tent shows and bars and theatres in small towns and
Orlando Sentinel theater critic Matthew J. Palm salutes leading actors in a musical as part of his 2022 theater honors.
Onstage at Winter Park Playhouse, “Trav’lin” is a sure cure for the doldrums of these cloudy and Florida-chilly days and nights. George, a retired porter for the Pullman train line and self-proclaimed mayor of his neighborhood, “cleans up messes” that other people create — with plenty of humor, heart and a wonderful catalog of bluesy and toe-tapping songs.