The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith

Tracklist

• 1
  St Louis Blues
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  3:00
  5.0 ★
• 3
  T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
  3:31
• 4
  Careless Love
  3:25
• 5
  Me and My Gin
  2:52
• 6
  Empty Bed Blues (Part One)
  3:04
• 7
  Down Hearted Blues
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
  3:20
• 9
  Dirty No-Gooder's Blues
  3:15
• 10
  After You've Gone
  2:58
• 11
  Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
  3:25
• 12
  Back Water Blues
  3:19

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal [1-3, 7, 10, 12]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [10]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [2-3, 7]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [2]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [2]
• Fred Longshaw
  reed organ [1]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [2]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [2]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [12]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [1]

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