ONE LP PORTRAITS: PHOTOGRAPHERS: TERRY CRYER: Terry Cryer: Photographer

“ She’s the first that I ever heard on record.I think it was at Eddie O'Donnel's house he played me an old 78 of Bessie Smith and I was very taken taken by it.I always had a fondness for Bessie Smith.She carried a razor you know, most of those black ladies carried a cut throat razor.”Terry Cryer: Photographed at home, Knaresborough, July 2011Terry CryerBessie Smith: The Empress (1923 - 1933) released 2004
Terry Cryer: Photographer, Bessie Smith: The Empress

“ She’s the first that I ever heard on record. 

I think it was at Eddie O'Donnel's house he played me an old 78 of Bessie Smith and I was very taken taken by it. 

I always had a fondness for Bessie Smith. 

She carried a razor you know, most of those black ladies carried a cut throat razor.” 

 

Terry Cryer: Photographed at home, Knaresborough, July 2011 

Terry Cryer 

Bessie Smith: The Empress (1923 - 1933) released 2004