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The Complete Recordings Vol. 3 (Legacy)
(CD, 1992)
Primary Artist: Bessie Smith
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Format: CD
Oct 1992
2 Discs
Record Label: Legacy Recordings
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 074644747423 |
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Details
Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Red Mountain Blues
2. Golden Rule Blues
3. Lonesome Desert Blues
4. Them "Has Been" Blues
5. Squeeze Me
6. What's the Matter Now?
7. I Want Every Bit of It
8. Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
9. Gin House Blues, The
10. Money Blues
11. Baby Doll
12. Hard Driving Papa
13. Lost Your Head Blues
14. Hard Time Blues
15. Honey Man Blues
16. One and Two Blues
17. Young Woman's Blues
18. Preachin' the Blues
19. Back Water Blues
20. After You've Gone
21. Alexander's Ragtime Band
DISC 2:
1. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
2. There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
3. Trombone Cholly
4. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
5. Them's Graveyard Words
6. Hot Spring Blues
7. Sweet Mistreater
8. Lock and Key
9. Mean Old Bedbug Blues
10. Good Man Is Hard to Find, A
11. Homeless Blues
12. Looking For My Man Blues
13. Dyin' by the Hour
14. Foolish Man Blues
15. Thinking Blues
16. Pickpocket Blues
17. I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama
18. I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Bessie Smith (vocals); Lincoln M. Conaway (guitar); Charlie Dixon (banjo); Don Redman (clarinet, alto saxophone); Buster Bailey, Coleman Hawkins (clarinet); Shelton Hemphill, Joe Smith (cornet); Fletcher Henderson, Clarence Williams, James P. Johnson, Porter Grainger (piano).
Recorded between 1925 and 1928.
This is part of Legacy's Roots N' Blues series.
Volume 3 of Columbia's five-box, ten-CD set finds Bessie Smith at the height of her career as a touring artist, recording consistently with high-caliber pianists like Fletcher Henderson and stride king James P. Johnson. While she was billed as "Empress of the Blues," Smith's accompanists handled her material in the small-group jazz style of the day, and her repertoire drew as much from tin pan alley, novelty and the vaudeville stage as it did from hokum and twelve-bar sources. There are many blues tunes here, but often the word was used as a marketing device rather than to connote a specific rhyme scheme or chord structure. On some of the later sides in Volume 3, the ensemble is expanded to include two horns--usually Joe Smith on cornet, with Jimmy Harrison or Charlie Green on trombone--and for one session, clarinet (a young Coleman Hawkins on "Alexander's Ragtime Band") and banjo. Chris Albertson's detailed history of Smith's life and career is continued in the accompanying booklet, which features numerous photographs of Smith and her colleagues and reproductions of various advertisements, studio logs, and 78 labels.
Industry Reviews
...finds her at the peak of her powers and popularity....Lawrence Cohn's painstaking production and Chris Albertson's richly detailed, authoritative notes make this collection a true no-brainer for anyone interested in jazz, blues and soul...
Musician (04/01/1993)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...this set finds Smith at her peak, raw, heartfelt and carnal in the most dignified manner...
Q (08/01/1993)
...captures her at the peak of her popularity and success as both a live entertainer and as a recording star...absolutely recommended for anyone who loves blues of any kind...
Living Blues (01/01/1993)
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