Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out2:595.0 ★
- 2Gin House Blues3:13
- 3Send Me to the 'lectric Chair3:21
- 4T'ain't Nobodys Business If I Do3:27
- 5I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl2:47
- 6After You've Gone2:56
- 7Careless Love Blues3:26
- 8Preachin' the Blues2:51
- 9Black Mountain Blues3:07
- 10Sinful Blues3:09
- 11Homeless Blues3:01
- 12Downhearted Blues3:264.0 ★
- 13Any Woman's Blues3:264.0 ★
- 14He's Gone Blues3:09
- 15Graveyard Dream Blues2:445.0 ★
- 16Lady Luck Blues3:08
- 17The Bye Bye Blues3:18
- 18House Rent Blues3:06
- 19Woman's Trouble Blues3:05
- 20Work House Blues3:21
- 21I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle3:224.0 ★
- 22Love Me Daddy Blues3:14
- 23St. Louis Blues3:104.0 ★
- 24Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)3:29
- CD 2
- 1Hard Driving Papa2:58
- 2Me and My Gin2:50
- 3Dyin' by the Hour2:58
- 4I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave2:57
- 5Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Two-Time Me)3:16
- 6Lock and Key2:58
- 7On Revival Day2:55
- 8Looking for My Man Blues2:50
- 9There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight3:19
- 10Backwater Blues3:18
- 11Young Woman's Blues3:07
- 12A Good Man Is Hard to Find2:59
- 13Baby Won't You Please Come Home2:564.0 ★
- 14Golden Rule Blues3:03
- 15What's the Matter Now2:45
- 16Honeyman Blues3:13
- 17Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)3:06
- 18Foolish Man Blues2:53
- 19Kitchen Man2:56
- 20Gulf Coast Blues3:02
- 21Foolish Man Blues2:56
- 22Chicago Bound Blues3:17
- 23Alexander's Ragtime Band2:59
- 24Sing Sing Prison Blues3:04
More by Bessie Smith
Release credits
- vocal [1.1, 1.6, 1.12-13, 1.15, 1.21, 1.23, 2.10-11, 2.13, 2.19, 2.23]
- clarinet [1.6, 2.11]
- banjo [23]
- trombone [21]
- piano [1.1, 1.12, 2.13, 2.19]
- clarinet [23]
- tuba [1]
- cornet [1]
- guitar [19]
- piano [2.11, 2.23, 1.13, 1.21]
- reed organ [23]
- alto saxophone [1]
- tenor saxophone [1]
- piano [10]
- trombone [23]
- piano [15]
- cornet [11, 23]
- cornet [21, 23]
Issues
- T2x CD2010



