The Essential Bessie Smith

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The Essential Bessie Smith
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36 tracks
Release Date
11 April 1997

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1 Play track Aggravatin' Papa
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 3:16 13,477 listeners
2 Play track Baby Won't You Please Come Home
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3 Play track 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
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4 Play track Jail-House Blues
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5 Graveyard Dream Blues - 78rpm Version
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6 Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
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7 Boweavil Blues
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8 Weeping Willow Blues
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9 Dying Gambler's Blues
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10 Play track St. Louis Blues Louis Armstrong
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11 You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
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12 Play track Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
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13 Play track Careless Love Blues (take 1)
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14 I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
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15 Play track At the Christmas Ball - 78rpm Version
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16 Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town - 78rpm Version
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17 Backwater Blues
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18 Play track After You've Gone
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19 Play track Alexander's Ragtime Band
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20 Play track There'll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight
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21 Trombone Cholly
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22 Play track Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
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23 Play track A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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24 Dyin' by the Hour
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25 Play track Me and My Gin
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26 Kitchen Man - 78 rpm Version
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27 Play track Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
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28 On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
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29 Play track Moan, You Moaners
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30 Play track Black Mountain Blues
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31 Play track Shipwreck Blues
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32 Play track Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
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33 Play track Do Your Duty
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34 Play track Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
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35 Play track Take Me for a Buggy Ride
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36 Play track I'm Down in the Dumps
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Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and, along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on other jazz vocalists. The 1900 census indicates that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1892. However, the 1910 census recorded her birthday as April 15, 1894, a date that appears on all subsequent documents and was observed by the entire Smith family. Census d… read more
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. S… read more
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest si… read more

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