The Anthology

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  2:59
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Gin House Blues
  3:13
• 3
  Send Me to the 'lectric Chair
  3:21
• 4
  T'ain't Nobodys Business If I Do
  3:27
• 5
  I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:47
• 6
  After You've Gone
  2:56
• 7
  Careless Love Blues
  3:26
• 8
  Preachin' the Blues
  2:51
• 9
  Black Mountain Blues
  3:07
• 10
  Sinful Blues
  3:09
• 11
  Homeless Blues
  3:01
• 12
  Downhearted Blues
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Any Woman's Blues
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 14
  He's Gone Blues
  3:09
• 15
  Graveyard Dream Blues
  2:44
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Lady Luck Blues
  3:08
• 17
  The Bye Bye Blues
  3:18
• 18
  House Rent Blues
  3:06
• 19
  Woman's Trouble Blues
  3:05
• 20
  Work House Blues
  3:21
• 21
  I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Love Me Daddy Blues
  3:14
• 23
  St. Louis Blues
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
  3:29
• CD 2
• 1
  Hard Driving Papa
  2:58
• 2
  Me and My Gin
  2:50
• 3
  Dyin' by the Hour
  2:58
• 4
  I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave
  2:57
• 5
  Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Two-Time Me)
  3:16
• 6
  Lock and Key
  2:58
• 7
  On Revival Day
  2:55
• 8
  Looking for My Man Blues
  2:50
• 9
  There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  3:19
• 10
  Backwater Blues
  3:18
• 11
  Young Woman's Blues
  3:07
• 12
  A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  2:59
• 13
  Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Golden Rule Blues
  3:03
• 15
  What's the Matter Now
  2:45
• 16
  Honeyman Blues
  3:13
• 17
  Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
  3:06
• 18
  Foolish Man Blues
  2:53
• 19
  Kitchen Man
  2:56
• 20
  Gulf Coast Blues
  3:02
• 21
  Foolish Man Blues
  2:56
• 22
  Chicago Bound Blues
  3:17
• 23
  Alexander's Ragtime Band
  2:59
• 24
  Sing Sing Prison Blues
  3:04

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal [1.1, 1.6, 1.12-13, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23, 2.10-11, 2.13, 2.19, 2.23]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [2.11, 1.6]
• Charlie Dixon
  banjo [23]
• Charlie Green
  trombone [21]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [1.1, 1.12, 2.13, 2.19]
• Coleman Hawkins
  clarinet [23]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [1]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [1]
• Eddie Lang
  guitar [19]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [2.11, 2.23, 1.13, 1.21]
• Fred Longshaw
  reed organ [23]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [1]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [1]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [10]
• Jimmy Harrison
  trombone [23]
• Jimmy Jones
  piano [15]
• Joe Smith
  cornet [11, 23]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [21, 23]
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Issues

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  The Anthology

  2x CD
  2010