The Complete Recordings, Volume 1

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Down Hearted Blues
  3:28
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Gulf Coast Blues
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Aggravatin' Papa

  Bessie Smith & Her Down Home Trio
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Beale Street Mama

  Bessie Smith & Her Down Home Trio
  3:37
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Oh Daddy Blues
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 7
  'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
  3:29
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Keeps on A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time)
  3:09
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Mama's Got the Blues
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Outside of That
  3:30
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Bleeding Hearted Blues
  3:08
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Lady Luck Blues
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Yodling Blues
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Midnight Blues
  3:20
  4.0 ★
• 15
  If You Don't, I Know Who Will
  3:38
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Jail-House Blues
  3:16
  4.0 ★
• 18
  St. Louis Gal
  3:30
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Sam Jones Blues
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Graveyard Dream Blues
  2:46
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Cemetery Blues
  3:31
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Far Away Blues

  Bessie Smith and Clara Smith
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 4
  I'm Going Back to My Used to Be

  Bessie Smith and Clara Smith
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 6
  My Sweetie Went Away
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Any Woman's Blues
  3:28
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Chicago Bound Blues
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Mistreating Daddy
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Frosty Morning Blues
  3:16
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Haunted House Blues
  3:31
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Eavesdropper's Blues
  3:13
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Easy Come, Easy Go Blues
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Sorrowful Blues
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Pinchbacks - Take 'em Away
  3:17
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Rocking Chair Blues
  3:16
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
  3:20
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Boweavil Blues
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Hateful Blues
  3:08
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal
• Buddy Christian
  banjo [3-4]
• Clara Smith
  vocal [3-4]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [1-8]
• Don Redman
  clarinet [8-9, 11-12]
• Ernest Elliott
  clarinet [3-4]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [2.3-4, 2.7-9, 2.11-12, 1.9-16]
• George Baquet
  clarinet [5-6]
• Harry Reser
  guitar [10, 13]
• Irving Johns
  piano [2.15-19, 1.17-19]
• Jimmy Jones
  piano [2.1-2, 2.10, 2.13, 1.18]
• John Griffin
  guitar [14]
• Robert Robbins
  violin [14, 16-19]
• [unknown]
  piano [5-6]

Issues

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  T
  The Complete Recordings, Volume 1

  2x CD
  1991
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  T
  The Complete Recordings, Volume 1

  2x CD
  1991