Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
 
Mama's Got the Blues

Original Release Date:  September 25, 1994

Track Listing
  • 1. Careless Love
  • 2. Young Woman's Blues
  • 3. I Want Every Bit of It
  • 4. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  • 5. My Man Blues
  • 6. Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town
  • 7. If You Don't, I Know Who Will
  • 8. After You've Gone
  • 9. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
  • 10. Lonesome Desert Blues
  • 11. Aggravatin' Papa
  • 12. St. Louis Blues
  • 13. Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
  • 14. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  • 15. Nobody's Blues But Mine
  • 16. Mama's Got the Blues
  • 17. Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  • 18. Hustlin' Dan
  • 19. Do Your Duty
  • 20. Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
  • 21. Take Me for a Buggy Ride
  • 22. I'm Down in the Dumps
Credits
  • Sara Martin: Composer
  • Bessie Smith: ?
  • Percy Grainger: Composer
  • Buster Bailey: Clarinet
  • Chu Berry: Sax (Tenor)
  • Benny Goodman: Clarinet
  • Jack Teagarden: Trombone
  • Frankie Newton: Trumpet
  • W.C. Handy: Composer
  • Coleman Hawkins: Clarinet
  • Louis Armstrong: Cornet
  • Colin Brown: Producer, Compilation Producer
  • Buddy Christian: Banjo
  • Charlie Dixon: Banjo
  • Fletcher Henderson: Piano
  • Jimmy Harrison: Trombone
  • Shelton Hemphill: Cornet
  • Bob Johnson: Guitar
  • Martha E. Koenig: Composer
  • Fred Longshaw: Piano, Reed Organ
  • Mezz Mezzrow: Composer
  • Elmer Snowden: Banjo
  • Joe "Fox" Smith: Cornet
  • Roy Turk: Composer
  • Buck Washington: Piano
  • Clarence Williams: Piano, Composer
  • Spencer Williams: Composer
  • Ernest Elliott: Clarinet
  • Charlie Green: Trombone
  • Clara Smith: Piano
  • Wesley Wilson: Composer
  • Tony Watts: Producer, Liner Notes, Compilation Producer
  • Billy Taylor, Sr.: Bass
  • Bob Fuller: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
  • Stanley Miller: Piano
  • Coot Grant: Composer
  • Addy Britt: Composer
  • John Robinson: Composer
  • Robert Prince: Composer
  • Isadore Myers: Piano
 
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