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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Bessie Smith |
| Record Label: |
Legacy Recordings |
| Contributing Artist: |
Benny Goodman |
| Genre: |
Blues |
| Subgenre: |
Classic Female Blues |
| Release Date: |
September 23, 1997 |
| Number of Discs: |
2 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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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 |
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Song List: Disc 2
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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 |
| More Information |
| Details: |
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 l... |
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