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Track Listing
1. Downhearted Blues
2. Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
3. My Sweetie Went Away (She Didn't Say When or Why)
4. Weeping Willow Blues
5. St. Louis Blues
6. Reckless Blues
7. You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
8. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
9. Young Woman's Blues
10. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
11. Mean Old Bedbug Blues
12. Empty Bed Blues (Parts 1 and 2)
13. Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out
14. Black Mountain Blues
15. Do Your Duty
16. Gimme a Pigfoot
Album Notes
Personnel: Bessie Smith (vocals); Lincoln Conaway, Bobby Johnson (guitar); George Baquet, Buster Bailey, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Goodman (clarinet); Garvin Bushel (alto saxophone); Greely Walton, Chu Berry (tenor saxophone); Frank Newton (trumpet); Joe Smith, Louis Armstong, Ed Allen (cornet); Charlie Green, Jimmy Harrison, Jack Teagarden (trombone); Cyrus St. Clair (tuba); Charlie Dixon (banjo); Fred Longshaw (piano, organ); Clarence Williams, Jimmy Jones, Fletcher Henderson, Porter Grainger, Steve Stevens, Buck Washington (piano); Billy Taylor (bass).
Producers: John Hammond, Frank Walker.
Reissue producer: Michael Brooks.
Includes liner notes by Chris Albertson.
This is part of the Columbia Jazz Masterpieces series.
All the Bessie Smith you'll ever need? Not necessarily, but THE COLLECTION is an all-but-flawless 16-song Bessie best-of, beginning with her first and biggest hit ("Downhearted Blues," from 1923) and ending with a signature tune ("Gimme a Pigfoot"), recorded at her last session in 1933. Guest jazz greats include Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, and Coleman Hawkins, and the album also features excellent liner notes by Chris Albertson, author of the definitive Smith bio BESSIE.
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