The Complete Recordings, Volume 1

Tracklist

• 1
  Down Hearted Blues
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Gulf Coast Blues
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Aggravatin’ Papa
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Beale Street Mama
  3:29
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Baby Won’t You Please Come Home Blues
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Oh Daddy Blues
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 7
  ’Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Keeps on a Rainin’
  3:04
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Mama’s Got the Blues
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Outside of That
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Bleeding Hearted Blues
  3:05
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Lady Luck Blues (Test)
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Lady Luck Blues
  3:03
• 14
  Yodling Blues (Test)
  3:07
• 15
  Yodling Blues
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Midnight Blues (Test)
  2:55
• 17
  Midnight Blues
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 18
  If You Don’t I Know Who Will
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Jail‐House Blues
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 21
  St. Louis Gal (Test)
  3:14
• 22
  St. Louis Gal
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 23
  Sam Jones Blues
  2:47
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal
• Buddy Christian
  banjo [3-4]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [1-8]
• David French
  producer
• Ernest Elliott
  clarinet [3-4]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [9-19]
• Irving Johns
  piano [20-23]
• Jimmy Jones
  piano [22]
• John R.T. Davies
  mastering

Issues

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  The Complete Recordings, Volume 1

  CD
  2001