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The Essential Bessie Smith (CD)

By: Bessie Smith (Artist)
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DISC 1 for The Essential Bessie Smith (CD) Album By Bessie Smith (Artist)
1   Aggravatin' Papa
2   Baby Won't You Please Come Home
3   Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
4   Jail-House Blues
5   Graveyard Dream Blues
6   Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
7   Boweavil Blues
8   Weeping Willow Blues
9   Dying Gambler's Blues
10   St. Louis Blues
11   You've Been A Good Ole Wagon
12   Cake Walkin' Babies From Home
13   Careless Love Blues
14   I Ain't Goin' To Play Second Fiddle
15   At The Christmas Ball
16   Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
17   Backwater Blues
18   After You've Gone
 
DISC 2 for The Essential Bessie Smith (CD) Album By Bessie Smith (Artist)
1   Alexander's Ragtime Band
2   There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
3   Trombone Cholly
4   Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
5   Good Man Is Hard To Find, A
6   Dyin' By The Hour
7   Me And My Gin
8   Kitchen Man
9   Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
10   On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
11   Moan, You Moaners
12   Black Mountain Blues
13   Shipwreck Blues
14   Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
15   Do Your Duty
16   Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)
17   Take Me For A Buggy Ride
18   Down In The Dumps
 
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Vibe (12/99, p.158) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century

Title Note

Personnel: Bessie Smith (vocals); Lincoln M. Conaway, Eddie Lang, Bobby Johnson (guitar); Buddy Christian, Charlie Dixon (banjo); Robert Robbins (violin); Coleman Hawkins (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Ernest Elliot, Buster Bailey, Benny Goodman (clarinet); Garvin Bushell (alto saxophone); Chu Berry,

Greely Walton (tenor saxophone); Frank Newton (trumpet); Joe Smith, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Ladnier, Ed Allen, Louis Metcalfe (cornet); Charlie Green,

Jimmy Harrison, Joe Williams, Jack Teagarden (trombone); Bob Escudero, June Cole, Cyrus St. Clair (tuba); Fred Longshaw (piano, reed organ); Clarence Williams, Irving Johns, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmy Jones, James P. Johnson, Porter Grainger, Steve Stevens, Buck Washington (piano); Billy Taylor (acoustic bass); Floyd Casey (drums); The Bessemer Singers (background vocals).

Includes liner notes by Chris Albertson.

Digitally remastered by David Mitson.

This is part of Columbia/Legacy's Roots 'N Blues Series.

For comprehensive coverage of the work of this blues legend and innovator, interested listeners should turn to Columbia/Legacy's five volumes of THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS. However, if nine discs seem somewhat overwhelming to the newcomer, there is no better place to begin than this 2-disc Roots n' Blues set. The digital remastering of these classic 1920s sides has resulted in mind-bogglingly clean sound documents, re-casting Smith's achievements in a beautifully bright light.

Smith's contributions to the development of blues and jazz vocals cannot be overestimated and, even today, there have been few female vocalists in the history of the genre to match her emotional intensity and sheer vocal power. This spectacular 36-track collection features many of Smith's biggest hits, including "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out," "Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," and "'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (two decades before Billie Holiday's version). Smith wrote the book on blues/jazz vocals, outshining not only the singers from her era but most since. This set is crucial for even the most casual blues and jazz fans.

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