The Ultimate Collection

Tracklist

• 1
  Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  3:00
• 2
  Gin House Blues
  3:16
• 3
  T'Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
  3:29
• 4
  After You've Gone
  2:58
• 5
  Sweet Mistreater
  3:02
• 6
  Empty Bed Blues, Parts 1 & 2
  6:27
• 7
  Dyin' by the Hour
  3:00
• 8
  Homeless Blues
  3:05
• 9
  You've Been a Good Ole Wagon (But You Done Broke Down)
  3:31
• 10
  Gulf Coast Blues
  3:02
• 11
  Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Try to Two-Time Me)
  3:16
• 12
  Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
  3:09
• 13
  There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  3:21
• 14
  Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
  3:34
• 15
  A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  3:01
• 16
  Lock and Key
  3:00
• 17
  Looking for My Man Blues
  2:50
• 18
  Foolish Man Blues
  2:56
• 19
  Hateful Blues
  3:11
• 20
  Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:51
• 21
  Thinking Blues
  3:10
• 22
  Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
  3:24
• 23
  St. Louis Blues (feat. Louis Armstrong)

  Bessie Smith featuring Louis Armstrong
  3:11
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal [3-4, 12-13, 20, 23]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [4, 12-13]
• Charlie Dixon
  banjo [4, 12-13]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [3]
• Coleman Hawkins
  clarinet [12]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [4, 12-13]
• Fred Longshaw
  reed organ [23]
• Jimmy Harrison
  trombone [4, 12-13]
• Joe Smith
  cornet [4, 12-13]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [23]

Issues

• T
  The Ultimate Collection

  CD
  1998