Bessie Smith – The Empress (Secondhand Vinyl) The Psychedelic Furs The tender-rocking "Dragonball Durag" is

The tender-rocking "Dragonball Durag" is full of humor but too thoughtfully written and endearing to be disregarded as either

The subject matter is unrelentingly

comes up against a problem that has dogged songwriters since time immemorial: how do you write about romance

Idles frontman Joe Talbot describing them as “fucking sick’’ and picked them as his act of choice for the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury 2022

Bessie Smith – The Empress (Secondhand Vinyl) The Psychedelic Furs The tender-rocking "Dragonball Durag" isBessie Smith The Empress (SECONDHAND) on vinyl LP in store at the Flying Nun Record stores Auckland and Wellington. UK, 1971