If only this happened in real life. The original video is loanger and before this scene in the bar, Bessie's character is jilted and knocked down be her man. Then she goes to the bar and starts singing and at about 1:28 eberybody in the bar starts singing the chorus.
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The recording that started it all when it came to the blues, or so I heard on a CBC program last night while stuck in construction traffic on the Malahat heading home from a hike up Mt. Arrowsmith
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