The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1 [Columbia/Legacy]

Original Release Date:  April 9, 1991

Track Listing

• 1. Downhearted Blues
• 2. Gulf Coast Blues
• 3. Aggravatin' Papa
• 4. Beale Street Mama
• 5. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
• 6. Oh! Daddy Blues
• 7. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
• 8. Keeps on A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time)
• 9. Mama's Got the Blues
• 10. Outside of That
• 11. Bleeding Hearted Blues
• 12. Lady Luck Blues
• 13. Yodling Blues
• 14. Midnight Blues
• 15. If You Don't, I Know Who Will
• 16. Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
• 17. Jailhouse Blues
• 18. St. Louis Gal
• 19. Sam Jones Blues
• 20. Graveyard Dream Blues
• 21. Cemetery Blues
• 22. Far Away Blues
• 23. I'm Going Back to My Used to Be
• 24. Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time
• 25. My Sweetie Went Away
• 26. Any Woman's Blues
• 27. Chicago Bound Blues
• 28. Mistreatin' Daddy
• 29. Frosty Morning Blues
• 30. Haunted House Blues
• 31. Eavesdropper's Blues
• 32. Easy Come, Easy Go Blues
• 33. Sorrowful Blues
• 34. Pinchbacks-Take 'Em Away!
• 35. Rocking Chair Blues
• 36. Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
• 37. Bo Weavil Blues
• 38. Hateful Blues

Credits

• Bessie Smith: Composer, Vocals
• Percy Grainger: Composer
• Mahalia Jackson: Liner Notes
• Ida Cox: Composer
• Harry Reser: Guitar
• Don Redman: Clarinet
• Steven Berkowitz: Coordination
• Ma Rainey: Composer
• Chris Albertson: Liner Notes
• Lovie Austin: Composer
• George Baquet: Clarinet
• Michael Berniker: Coordination
• E. Ollie Brown: Composer
• Buddy Christian: Banjo
• James Cox: Composer
• Fletcher Henderson: Piano
• Tim Geelan: Engineer, Digital Restoration
• Porter Grainger: Composer
• Amy Herot: Coordination
• Jimmy Jones: Piano
• Jo Trent: Composer
• Clarence Williams: Piano, Composer
• Spencer Williams: Composer
• Ernest Elliott: Clarinet
• John Berg: Art Direction
• Lawrence Cohn: Producer
• Clara Smith: Vocals, Performer
• Gina Campanaro: Package Coordinator
• Tony Tiller: Package Coordinator
• Irving Johns: Composer
• Max Kortlander: Composer
• John Griffin: Guitar
• Robert Prince: Composer
• Irving Jones: Piano
• Bob Ricketts: Composer
• Robert Robbins: Violin