The Essential Bessie Smith
AlbumTracklist 113:42
CD 1
| 1 | Aggravatin' Papa | 3:18 | |
| 2 | Baby Won't You Please Come Home | 2:57 | |
| 3 | 'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do | 3:27 | |
| 4 | Jail-House Blues | 3:15 | |
| 5 | Graveyard Dream Blues | 2:45 | |
| 6 | Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down | 3:19 | |
| 7 | Boweavil Blues | 2:53 | |
| 8 | Weeping Willow Blues | 3:11 | |
| 9 | Dying Gambler's Blues | 2:59 | |
| 10 | St. Louis Blues | 3:11 | |
| 11 | You've Been a Good Ole Wagon | 3:28 | |
| 12 | Cake Walkin' Babies From Home | 3:10 | |
| 13 | Careless Love Blues | 3:26 | |
| 14 | I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle | 3:22 | |
| 15 | At the Christmas Ball | 3:25 | |
| 16 | Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town | 3:20 | |
| 17 | Backwater Blues | 3:19 | |
| 18 | After You've Gone | 2:55 |
CD 2
| 1 | Alexander's Ragtime Band | 3:00 | |
| 2 | There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight | 3:20 | |
| 3 | Trombone Cholly | 3:11 | |
| 4 | Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair | 3:22 | |
| 5 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | 2:59 | |
| 6 | Dyin' By the Hour | 2:59 | |
| 7 | Me and My Gin | 2:50 | |
| 8 | Kitchen Man | 2:56 | |
| 9 | Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out | 2:58 | |
| 10 | On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) | 2:56 | |
| 11 | Moan, You Moaners | 3:12 | |
| 12 | Black Mountain Blues | 3:08 | |
| 13 | Shipwreck Blues | 3:21 | |
| 14 | Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl | 2:48 | |
| 15 | Do Your Duty | 3:26 | |
| 16 | Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer | 3:30 | |
| 17 | Take Me for a Buggy Ride | 2:37 | |
| 18 | Down in the Dumps | 3:09 |