The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith
• 1
  Down Hearted Blues
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 2
  A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  3:02
• 3
  I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Careless Love
  3:24
• 5
  Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
  3:09
• 6
  T’Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
  3:30
• 7
  I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:52
• 8
  Send Me to the ’Lectric Chair
  3:24
• 9
  Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
  3:31
• 10
  Empty Bed Blues (Part One)
  3:03
• 11
  Empty Bed Blues (Part Two)
  3:21
• 12
  Back Water Blues
  3:19
• 13
  The Yellow Dog Blues
  3:03
• 14
  Me and My Gin
  2:51
• 15
  St Louis Blues
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
  3:20
• 17
  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  2:59
  5.0 ★
• 18
  After You’ve Gone
  2:57
• 19
  Jailhouse Blues
  3:15
• 20
  Dirty No‐Gooder’s Blues
  2:46
• 21
  I’d Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave
  2:47
• CD 2: Original Blues Divas
• 1
  Coffee Grindin’ Blues

  Lucille Bogan
  3:27
• 2
  My Stove’s in Good Condition

  Lil Johnson
  2:54
• 3
  Knockin’ Myself Out

  Lil Green
  3:00
• 4
  Dirty Mother for You

  Memphis Minnie
  2:48
• 5
  Short John

  Dinah Washington
  2:53
• 6
  Dope Head Blues

  Victoria Spivey
  3:20
• 7
  Love Shows Weakness

  Merline Johnson
  2:41
• 8
  When I Get Low I Get High

  Ella Fitzgerald
  2:25
• 9
  Jack I’m Mellow

  Trixie Smith
  2:46
• 10
  I’m a Mighty Tight Woman

  Sippie Wallace
  2:54
• 11
  One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show

  Big Maybelle
  2:52
• 12
  Oh What a Dream

  Ruth Brown
  2:53

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal [1, 3, 6, 12, 15, 17-18]
• Blind John Davis
  piano [7]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [18]
• Charles Segar
  piano [4]
• Charlie Green
  trombone [3]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [1, 6, 17]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [17]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [17]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [3]
• Fred Longshaw
  reed organ [15]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [17]
• George Barnes
  electric guitar [7]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [17]
• Honoré Dutrey
  trombone [10]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [12]
• Johnny Dodds
  clarinet [10]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [3, 15]
• Memphis Minnie
  guitar [4], lead vocals [4]
• Natty Dominique
  trumpet [10]
• Sippie Wallace
  piano [10], vocal [10]
• Warren “Baby” Dodds
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Yas Yas Girl
  lead vocals [7]
• [unknown]
  bass [7]
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Issues

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  The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith

  2x CD
  26 September 2011
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  The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith

  12" Vinyl
  24 November 2014