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8 de ago. de 2019 · Clarksdale, Miss. is home to both the crossroads where Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul and the site of Bessie Smith's death. But in the legend of the genre, not every tale gets the...
The fourth marker location on the Mississippi Blues Trail, famed for providing lodging for such blues artists as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ike Turner, and Robert Nighthawk, it was previously the G.T. Thomas Hospital, in which Bessie Smith died in 1937.
Blues singer Bessie Smith died here in 1937 following a car accident while traveling to Clarksdale for a performance.” The GPS location of the Riverside Hotel is: N 34° 11.701′ W 90° 34.357′. Mississippi Blues Trail marker at Riverside Hotel, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Smith, Bessie (1894–1937) African-American vocalist and "Empress of the Blues" who was one of America's greatest jazz singers.
Memorialized in a one-act play, The Death of Bessie Smith by playwright Edward Albee, she was in a tragic automobile accident outside of Clarksdale, and she passed away at the G. T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital, which in 1943 became Clarksdale’s famous hotel for the blues, The Riverside Hotel.
On the morning of September 26, 1937, Bessie Smith, “the empress of the blues,” died here at the G.T. Thomas Afro American Hospital following an automobile accident on Highway 61 just outside of Clarksdale.
On September 26, 1937, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith was taken to the hospital after a car accident outside Clarksdale; the room where she passed on now serves as a shrine to her spirit and the blues, which are one and the same.
