http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B526 In addition to a biography this page adds a comprehensive discography of her recorded work with ratings and reviews of albums. http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/bessie/ Collection of links to blues singer Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues. http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/artistswithsongs/bessie_smith_index.htm Large collection of lyrics of many of her songs, sound clips, biography, recommended listening, reading and viewing. http://www.hub.org/bluesnet/readings/bessie.html Reflections of 1920's and 30's street life in the music of Bessie Smith, an essay. http://www.blueflamecafe.com/Bessie_Smith.html Biography of the most influential classic blues singer of the 1920s. Compiled from various sources on the Internet.