![]() Bessie had meant to speak not about some unfamiliar variety of sexual congress but about a human condition that, if it is not universal, has inescapably been my own. Exegeses of Bessie’s work have always tended to err in the direction of the coarse and we pursued the mystery of the import of these words for the longest while among esoterica of sexual reference far beyond our own puny experience.īut we never solved their puzzle and it teased me into late middle age until suddenly I understood. The beauty of the lines was inexplicable and so was their meaning. The result was “Lost Your Head Blues” and one of Bessie’s supposed improvisations was: An Explanation of My Title: Historical scholarship, that ragbag of myth, holds that once in 1927, while recording at the Columbia Studios, Bessie Smith had run through all her prepared material and then found herself with enough time left for another song and no way to use it except by making up the lyrics as she went along.
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