The Undisputed Queen of the Blues

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  St. Louis Blues
  3:12
• 2
  Sobbin’ Hearted Blues
  3:02
• 3
  You’ve Been a Good Ole Wagon
  3:31
• 4
  Careless Love Blues
  3:27
• 5
  Young Woman’s Blues
  3:08
• 6
  Alexander’s Ragtime Band
  3:00
• 7
  Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
  3:21
• 8
  I Want Every Bit of It
  2:38
• 9
  Cake Walkin’ Babies From Home
  3:11
• 10
  Down Hearted Blues
  3:28
• 11
  Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home?
  2:58
• 12
  T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
  3:29
• 13
  Any Woman’s Blues
  3:27
• 14
  Moonshine Blues
  3:19
• 15
  Weeping Willow Blues
  3:12
• 16
  Dying Gambler’s Blues
  3:00
• 17
  Hard Time Blues
  3:15
• 18
  Lost Your Head Blues
  2:55
• 19
  Hard Driving Papa
  2:58
• 20
  Gin House Blues
  3:14
• CD 2
• 1
  Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer)
  3:30
• 2
  Take Me for a Buggy Ride
  2:37
• 3
  Do Your Duty
  3:26
• 4
  I’m Down in the Dumps
  3:11
• 5
  Send Me to the ’lectric Chair
  3:23
• 6
  Empty Bed Blues Pt. 1
  3:03
• 7
  Empty Bed Blues Pt. 2
  3:22
• 8
  There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  3:20
• 9
  Trombone Cholly
  3:12
• 10
  Kitchen Man
  2:58
• 11
  I’m Wild About That Thing
  2:49
• 12
  Me and My Gin
  2:52
• 13
  Poor Man’s Blues
  3:26
• 14
  Dyin’ by the Hour
  3:00
• 15
  I’ve Got What It Takes (but It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away)
  3:11
• 16
  He’s Got Me Goin’
  3:14
• 17
  Dirty No‐Gooder’s Blues
  2:57
• 18
  Black Mountain Blues
  3:09
• 19
  Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:49
• 20
  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  2:59
  5.0 ★

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Release credits

• Bessie Smith
  vocal [3, 9-10, 16, 20]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [3]
• Bobby Johnson
  guitar [3]
• Buck Washington
  piano [3]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [10, 20]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [20]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [20]
• Eddie Lang
  guitar [10]
• Frankie Newton
  trumpet [3]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [20]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [20]
• Jack Teagarden
  trombone [3]
• James P. Johnson
  piano [16]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [3]

Issues

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  The Undisputed Queen of the Blues

  2x CD
  2006