Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
 
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
 
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