The Essential Bessie Smith

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Aggravatin' Papa
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  2:57
  4.0 ★
• 3
  'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Jail-House Blues
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Graveyard Dream Blues
  2:45
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Boweavil Blues
  2:53
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Weeping Willow Blues
  3:11
• 9
  Dying Gambler's Blues
  2:59
• 10
  St. Louis Blues
  3:11
• 11
  You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
  3:28
• 12
  Cake Walkin' Babies From Home
  3:10
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Careless Love Blues
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 14
  I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 15
  At the Christmas Ball
  3:25
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
  3:20
• 17
  Backwater Blues
  3:19
• 18
  After You've Gone
  2:55
• CD 2
• 1
  Alexander's Ragtime Band
  3:00
• 2
  There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  3:20
• 3
  Trombone Cholly
  3:11
• 4
  Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
  3:22
• 5
  A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  2:59
• 6
  Dyin' By the Hour
  2:59
• 7
  Me and My Gin
  2:50
• 8
  Kitchen Man
  2:56
• 9
  Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  2:58
  5.0 ★
• 10
  On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
  2:56
• 11
  Moan, You Moaners
  3:12
• 12
  Black Mountain Blues
  3:08
• 13
  Shipwreck Blues
  3:21
• 14
  Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:48
• 15
  Do Your Duty
  3:26
• 16
  Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
  3:30
• 17
  Take Me for a Buggy Ride
  2:37
• 18
  Down in the Dumps
  3:09

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Release credits

• Benny Goodman
  clarinet [16]
• Bessie Smith
  lead vocals [10-11], vocal [2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.8-9, 2.12, 2.15-16, 1.1-8, 1.10, 1.12-18]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [15-16]
• Bob Escudero
  tuba [12]
• Bobby Johnson
  banjo [16], guitar [15-16]
• Buck Washington
  piano [15-16]
• Buddy Christian
  banjo [1]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [12, 16, 18]
• Charles Dixon
  banjo [18]
• Charlie Dixon
  banjo [2.1, 1.12]
• Charlie Green
  trombone [8, 12-15]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [1.1-3, 2.8-9]
• Coleman Hawkins
  clarinet [1], tenor saxophone [12]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [9]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [9, 12]
• Eddie Lang
  guitar [8]
• Ernest Elliott
  clarinet [1]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [1.8, 1.12-16, 1.18, 2.1, 2.6]
• Frankie Newton
  trumpet [15-16]
• Fred Longshaw
  harmonium [10]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [9]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [9]
• Irving Johns
  piano [4, 6-7]
• Jack Teagarden
  trombone [15-16]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [1.17, 2.10-11]
• Jimmy Harrison
  trombone [2.1, 1.18]
• Jimmy Jones
  piano [5]
• Joe Smith
  cornet [1.8, 1.12, 1.15, 1.18, 2.1]
• June Cole
  tuba [6]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [15-16]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [10, 13-14]
• Robert Robbins
  violin [6-7]
• Steve Stevens
  piano [12]
• The Bessemer Singers
  choir vocals [10-11]
• Tommy Ladnier
  cornet [6]
• Show all credits (35)

Issues

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  The Essential Bessie Smith

  2x CD
  23 September 1997