Clara Smith

AAwful Moanin' Blues
BI never miss the Sunshine

Label: Columbia
Catalogue number: A4000
Genre: Jazz
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #7405

Clara Smith — the 'Queen of the Moaners', one of the great classic blues singers of the 1920s and a Columbia recording artist — sings 'Awful Moanin' Blues' and 'I Never Miss the Sunshine' on Columbia A4000. The A4000 Columbia number places this at the very start of Columbia's race-record series, circa 1923–24. UK copies of American Columbia race-series pressings are extremely uncommon, and Clara Smith is a significant figure in blues history.

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