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The complete recordings, Bessie Smith, Vol. 1

eng

biography of performer or history of ensemblehistorical information

blues

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The complete recordings

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23955969

Recorded Feb. 1923-Apr. 1924

Bessie Smith

Roots n' blues

Disc 1. Down hearted blues (3:25) -- Gulf Coast blues (3:04) -- Aggravatin' Papa (3:16) -- Beale Street Mama (3:35) -- Baby won't you please come home (2:55) -- Oh Daddy blues (3:05) -- Tain't nobody's bizness if I do (3:26) -- Keeps on a-rainin' (Papa, he can't make no time) (3:07) -- Mama's got the blues (2:56) -- Outside of that (3:27) -- Bleeding hearted blues (3:06) -- Lady Luck blues (3:07) -- Yodling blues (3:11) -- Midnight blues (3:17) -- If you don't, I know who will (3:35) -- Nobody in town can bake a sweet jelly roll like mine (3:31) -- Jail-house blues (3:13) -- St Louis gal (3:27) -- Sam Jones blues (2:47)Disc 2. Graveyard dream blues (2:43) -- Cemetery blues (3:29) -- Far away blues (2:59) -- I'm going back to my used to be (2:53) -- Whoa, Tillie, take your time (3:10) -- My sweetie went away (3:11) -- Any woman's blues (3:25) -- Chicago bound blues (3:16) -- Mistreating Daddy (3:17) -- Frosty morning blues (3:13) -- Haunted house blues (3:29) -- Eavesdropper's blues (3:10) -- Easy come, easy go blues (3:08) -- Sorrowful blues (3:17) -- Pinchbacks, take 'em away (3:14) -- Rocking chair blues (3:14) -- Ticket agent, ease your window down (3:18) -- Boweavil blues (2:51) -- Hateful blues (3:08)

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