Bessie's Blues

Tracklist

• 1
  'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do
  2:29
• 2
  Empty Bed Blues (Parts 1 & 2)
  6:23
• 3
  Young Woman's Blues
  3:09
• 4
  Gulf Coast Blues
  3:05
• 5
  St Louis Blues
  3:12
• 6
  Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
  2:56
• 7
  Easy Come, Easy Go Blues
  3:08
• 8
  Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Our
  2:58
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)
  3:30
• 10
  Down Hearted Blues
  3:24
• 11
  You've Been A Good Ole Wagon
  3:27
• 12
  Do Your Duty
  3:25
• 13
  Black Mountain Blues
  3:08
• 14
  Rockin' Chair Blues
  3:14
• 15
  Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
  3:07
• 16
  I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
  3:21
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal [3, 8, 12, 16]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [12]
• Bobby Johnson
  guitar [12]
• Buck Washington
  piano [12]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [3]
• Charlie Green
  trombone [16]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [8]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [8]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [8]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [3, 16]
• Frankie Newton
  trumpet [12]
• Fred Longshaw
  organ [5]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [8]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Jack Teagarden
  trombone [12]
• Joe Smith
  cornet [3]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [12]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [5, 16]
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Issues

• B
  Bessie's Blues

  CD
  1996