The Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1927-1928

Tracklist

• 1
  After You've Gone
  2:59
• 2
  Alexander's Ragtime Band
  3:00
• 3
  Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
  3:08
• 4
  There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  3:20
• 5
  Trombone Cholly
  3:12
• 6
  Send Me to the 'lectric Chair
  3:23
• 7
  Them's Graveyard Words
  2:59
• 8
  Hot Springs Blues
  2:56
• 9
  Sweet Mistreater
  3:02
• 10
  Lock and Key
  2:59
• 11
  Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
  3:14
• 12
  A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  3:01
• 13
  Homeless Blues
  3:01
• 14
  Looking for My Man Blues
  2:50
• 15
  Dyin' By the Hour
  3:00
• 16
  Foolish Man Blues
  2:55
• 17
  Thinking Blues
  3:10
• 18
  Pickpocket Blues
  2:44
• 19
  I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama
  2:50
• 20
  I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave
  2:58
• 21
  Standin' in the Rain Blues
  2:54
• 22
  It Won't Be You
  2:49
• 23
  Spider Man Blues
  3:23

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Release credits

• Abraham Wheat
  clarinet [23], soprano saxophone [23]
• Bessie Smith
  vocal
• Bob Fuller
  clarinet [20, 23]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [1, 3-4]
• Charlie Dixon
  banjo [1-4]
• Charlie Green
  trombone [5-8, 17-19, 21-22]
• Coleman Hawkins
  clarinet [2-3]
• Demas Dean
  cornet [17-19, 21-22]
• Ernest Elliott
  alto saxophone [13-14], clarinet [20]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [1-8, 15-16]
• Fred Longshaw
  piano [17-19, 21-22]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [9-10]
• Jimmy Harrison
  trombone [1-4]
• Joe Smith
  cornet [1-8]
• June Cole
  tuba [15-16]
• Lincoln M. Conway
  guitar [11-12]
• Porter Grainger
  piano [11-14, 20, 23]
• Tommy Ladnier
  cornet [15-16]
• Show all credits (18)

Issues

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  The Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1927-1928

  CD
  1996