The Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1923

Tracklist

• 1
  Down-Hearted Blues
  3:28
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Gulf Coast Blues
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Aggravatin' Papa
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Beale Street Mama
  3:35
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Oh Daddy (You Won't Have No Mama at All)
  3:06
• 7
  'Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Keeps on A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time)
  3:07
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Mama's Got the Blues
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Outside of That
  3:30
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Bleeding Hearted Blues
  3:09
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Lady Luck Blues
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Yodling Blues
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Midnight Blues
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 15
  If You Don't I Don't Know Who Will
  3:36
• 16
  Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
  3:31
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Jail House Blues
  3:16
  4.0 ★
• 18
  St. Louis Gal
  3:30
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Sam Jones Blues
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Graveyard Dream Blues
  2:46
  5.0 ★
• 21
  Cemetery Blues
  3:31
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Far Away Blues

  Bessie Smith and Clara Smith
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 23
  I'm Going Back to My Used to Be

  Bessie Smith and Clara Smith
  2:53
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal [1-5, 7-14, 16-23]
• Buddy Christian
  banjo [3-4]
• Clara Smith
  vocal [22-23]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [1-5, 7-8]
• Ernest Elliott
  clarinet [3-4]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [9-14, 16, 22-23]
• Irving Johns
  piano [17-19]
• Jimmy Jones
  piano [18, 20-21]

Issues

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  The Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1923

  CD
  1994