The Essence of Bessie Smith

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Downhearted Blues
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Gimme a Pigfoot
  3:29
• 3
  Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Taint Nobody's Business If I Do
  3:27
• 5
  Any Woman's Blues
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Chicago Bound Blues
  3:17
• 7
  Graveyard Dream Blues
  2:44
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Jail House Blues
  3:14
• 9
  Lady Luck Blues
  3:08
• 10
  Boweavil Blues
  2:52
• 11
  Bye Bye Blues
  3:18
• 12
  House Rent Blues
  3:06
• 13
  Sing Sing Prison Blues
  3:04
• 14
  Woman's Trouble Blues
  3:05
• 15
  Work House Blues
  3:21
• 16
  Ain't Gonna Play Second Fiddle
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 17
  St Louis Blues
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Careless Love Blues
  3:26
• 19
  He’s Gone Blues
  3:09
• 20
  Love Me Daddy Blues
  3:14
• 21
  Sinful Blues
  3:09
• 22
  You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon
  3:29
• CD 2
• 1
  Young Woman’s Blues
  3:08
• 2
  Gin House Blues
  3:13
• 3
  Golden Rules
  3:03
• 4
  Hard Driving Papa
  2:57
• 5
  What’s the Matter Now?
  2:45
• 6
  A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  2:59
• 7
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  2:59
• 8
  After You’ve Gone
  2:56
• 9
  Blackwater Blues
  3:18
• 10
  Honey Man Blues
  3:13
• 11
  Lock and Key
  2:58
• 12
  Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
  3:06
• 13
  Preachin’ the Blues
  2:51
• 14
  Send Me to the ’Lectric Chair
  3:21
• 15
  There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  3:19
• 16
  Dyin’ By the Hour
  2:58
• 17
  Foolish Man Blues
  2:53
• 18
  I’d Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave
  2:57
• 19
  Kitchen Man
  2:56
• 20
  Me and My Gin
  2:50
• 21
  Black Mountain Blues
  3:07
• 22
  On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
  2:55
• 23
  I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:47
• 24
  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  2:58
  5.0 ★

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Release credits

• Benny Goodman
  clarinet [2]
• Bessie Smith
  lead vocals [22], vocal [1.1-3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.16-17, 2.1, 2.8, 2.19, 2.24]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [2]
• Bobby Johnson
  banjo [2], guitar [2]
• Buck Washington
  piano [2]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [1, 8]
• Charlie Green
  trombone [16]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [2.19, 2.24, 1.1, 1.3]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [24]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [24]
• Eddie Lang
  guitar [19]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [1.5, 1.16, 2.1]
• Frankie Newton
  trumpet [2]
• Fred Longshaw
  piano [22], reed organ [17]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [24]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [24]
• Jack Teagarden
  trombone [2]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [22]
• Jimmy Jones
  piano [7]
• Joe Smith
  cornet [1]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [2]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [16-17, 22]
• The Bessemer Singers
  choir vocals [22]
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Issues

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  The Essence of Bessie Smith

  2x CD
  2006