The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
St. Luke's Theater, Off Broadway By Eleanor J. Bader BOTTOM LINE: A well-acted, moving, new musical about legendary blues singer, Bessie Smith. Ninety years ago, Blues singer Bessie Smith [1894-1937] had it all. As the most successful African American musician of the 1920's " she outsold such contemporaries as Louis Armstrong and Alberta Hunter " she had fame, fortune, and notoriety. Dubbed "The Empress of B…