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Track Listing 1. Downhearted Blues 2. Keep on a Rainin' 3. St. Louis Blues 4. Cold in Hand Blues 5. Cake Walkin' Babies 6. Yellow Dog Blues, The 7. At the Cristmas Ball 8. Jazzo Brown From Memphis Town 9. Gin House Blues, The 10. Baby Doll 11. Lost Your Head Blues 12. Back Water Blues 13. Trombone Cholly 14. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair 15. Dyin' by the Hour 16. Empty Bed Blues 17. Put It Right Here 18. I'm Wild About That Thing 19. Kitchen Man 20. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 21. New Orleans Hop Scop Blues 22. Do Your Duty 23. Gimme a Pig Foot and a Bottle of Beer
Album Notes Personnel includes: Bessie Smith (vocals); Eddie Lang (guitar); Buster Bailey, Benny Goodman (clarinet); Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry (tenor saxophone); Louis Armstrong, Tommy Ladnier (trumpet); Joe Smith (cornet); Charlie Green, Jack Teagarden (trombone); Fred Longshaw (piano, organ); Clarence Williams, James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, Porter Grainger (piano). Recorded between 1923 & 1933. Includes liner notes by Vic Bellerby.
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