Reputedly the greatest of all blues singers, she learned her craft as an orphan singing in the street for pennies. Becoming one of the all-time great stars of the gramophone record, her big, beautiful voice and emotionally naked interpretations result in records that will never stop selling.

20 tracks including:

• ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
• Aggravatin’ Papa
• Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home
• Beale Street Mamma
• Down Hearted Blues
• Gulf Coast Blues
• I Ain’t Got Nobody
• If You Don’t, I Know Who Will