The Essence of Bessie Smith

The Essence of Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith

Album
Label Delta Music Release date Format 2×CD Country 🌍 Europe Discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/13462066

Tracklist 143:19

CD 1

1 Downhearted Blues 3:27
2 Gimme a Pigfoot 3:29
3 Baby Won't You Please Come Home 2:56
4 Taint Nobody's Business If I Do 3:27
5 Any Woman's Blues 3:26
6 Chicago Bound Blues 3:17
7 Graveyard Dream Blues 2:44
8 Jail House Blues 3:14
9 Lady Luck Blues 3:08
10 Boweavil Blues 2:52
11 Bye Bye Blues 3:18
12 House Rent Blues 3:06
13 Sing Sing Prison Blues 3:04
14 Woman's Trouble Blues 3:05
15 Work House Blues 3:21
16 Ain't Gonna Play Second Fiddle 3:21
17 St Louis Blues 3:10
18 Careless Love Blues 3:26
19 He’s Gone Blues 3:09
20 Love Me Daddy Blues 3:14
21 Sinful Blues 3:09
22 You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon 3:29

CD 2

1 Young Woman’s Blues 3:08
2 Gin House Blues 3:13
3 Golden Rules 3:03
4 Hard Driving Papa 2:57
5 What’s the Matter Now? 2:45
6 A Good Man Is Hard to Find 2:59
7 Alexander’s Ragtime Band 2:59
8 After You’ve Gone 2:56
9 Blackwater Blues 3:18
10 Honey Man Blues 3:13
11 Lock and Key 2:58
12 Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) 3:06
13 Preachin’ the Blues 2:51
14 Send Me to the ’Lectric Chair 3:21
15 There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight 3:19
16 Dyin’ By the Hour 2:58
17 Foolish Man Blues 2:53
18 I’d Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave 2:57
19 Kitchen Man 2:56
20 Me and My Gin 2:50
21 Black Mountain Blues 3:07
22 On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) 2:55
23 I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl 2:47
24 Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out 2:58