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Format: CD
Jun 1994
Record Label: Classics Jazz (France)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 3307517076120 |
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Details
Track Listing
1. Down-Hearted Blues
2. Gulf Coast Blues
3. Aggravatin' Papa
4. Beale Street Mama
5. Baby Won't You Please Come Home Blues
6. Oh Daddy (You Won't Have No Mama at All)
7. Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness 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. Yodeling 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. Jail House Blues
18. St. Louis Gal
19. Sam Jones Blues
20. Graveyard Dream Blues
21. Cemetery Blues
22. Far Away Blues - (with Clara Smith)
23. I'm Going Back to My Used to Be - (with Clara Smith)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Clara Smith | | Distributor: | City Hall | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Bessie Smith (vocals); Fletcher Henderson, Irving Johns, Jimmy Jones, Clarence Williams (piano); Buddy Christian (banjo); Ernest Elliot.
Includes liner notes by Anatol Schenker.
This is volume one of a made-in-France version of the more familiar Columbia/Legacy Smith reissues, a single disc collection that duplicates the first 23 chronologically arranged tracks on the American THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS VOL. 1. The liner notes are pretty perfunctory compared to the American set (an essay by Bessie biographer Chris Albertson) and the sound here isn't as good as Legacy's digital restoration, although it's certainly listenable. Those limitations acknowledged, however, this is still great, timeless great music--even at this early stage, Smith was indisputably the Empress of the Blues. The most interesting track here is probably "T'Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do" (20 years before Billie Holiday), although just about everything here is rewarding; it's particularly fascinating to hear Bessie growing more assured as the set progresses.
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