1923-1933 Empress of the Blues

Tracklist

• 1
  Do Your Duty
  3:26
• 2
  Gimme a Pigfoot
  3:29
• 3
  Take Me for a Buggy Ride
  2:37
• 4
  I’m Down in the Dumps
  3:10
• 5
  Safety Mama
  3:25
• 6
  He’s Got Me Goin’
  3:16
• 7
  Take It Right Back
  3:24
• 8
  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  3:01
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Kitchen Man
  2:59
• 10
  Me and My Gin
  2:54
• 11
  Trombone Cholly
  3:15
• 12
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  3:02
• 13
  After You’ve Gone
  2:58
• 14
  Young Woman’s Blues
  3:09
• 15
  I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Careless Love
  3:27
• 17
  Cake Walkin’ Babies From Home
  3:11
• 18
  You’ve Been a Good Ole Wagon
  3:28
• 19
  The St. Louis Blues
  3:12
• 20
  Weepin’ Willow Blues
  3:10
• 21
  My Sweetie Went Away (She Didn’t Say Where, When or Why)
  3:13
• 22
  ’taint Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
  3:29

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal [5, 8-9, 11, 14-15, 22]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [14]
• Charlie Green
  trombone [15]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [8-9, 22]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [8]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [8]
• Eddie Lang
  guitar [9]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [14-15]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [8]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Joe Smith
  cornet [14]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [15]

Issues

• 1
  1923-1933 Empress of the Blues

  CD
  1991