The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith

The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith

Album
Label World Music Network Release date Format 2×CD Country 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/3988497

Tracklist 101:41

CD 1

1 Down Hearted Blues 3:27
2 A Good Man Is Hard to Find 3:02
3 I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle 3:21
4 Careless Love 3:24
5 Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) 3:09
6 T’Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do 3:30
7 I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl 2:52
8 Send Me to the ’Lectric Chair 3:24
9 Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer 3:31
10 Empty Bed Blues (Part One) 3:03
11 Empty Bed Blues (Part Two) 3:21
12 Back Water Blues 3:19
13 The Yellow Dog Blues 3:03
14 Me and My Gin 2:51
15 St Louis Blues 3:11
16 Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town 3:20
17 Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out 2:59
18 After You’ve Gone 2:57
19 Jailhouse Blues 3:15
20 Dirty No‐Gooder’s Blues 2:46
21 I’d Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave 2:47

CD 2

1 Coffee Grindin’ Blues Lucille Bogan 3:27
2 My Stove’s in Good Condition Lil Johnson 2:54
3 Knockin’ Myself Out Lil Green 3:00
4 Dirty Mother for You Memphis Minnie 2:48
5 Short John Dinah Washington 2:53
6 Dope Head Blues Victoria Spivey 3:20
7 Love Shows Weakness Merline Johnson 2:41
8 When I Get Low I Get High Ella Fitzgerald 2:25
9 Jack I’m Mellow Trixie Smith 2:46
10 I’m a Mighty Tight Woman Sippie Wallace 2:54
11 One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show Big Maybelle 2:52
12 Oh What a Dream Ruth Brown 2:53