Bessie Smith - Essential Bessie Smith
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Artist: Bessie SmithEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-09-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Aggravatin' Papa
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
- Jail-House Blues
- Graveyard Dream Blues
- Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
- Boweavil Blues
- Weeping Willow Blues
- Dying Gambler's Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
- Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home)
- Careless Love Blues
- I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle
- At the Christmas Ball
- Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town
- Backwater Blues
- After You've Gone
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
- Trombone Cholly
- Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- Dyin' by the Hour
- Me and My Gin
- Kitchen Man
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
- Moan, You Moaners
- Black Mountain Blues
- Shipwreck Blues
- Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
- Do Your Duty
- Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
- Take Me for a Buggy Ride
- Down in the Dumps
Essential Bessie Smith Poster
Bessie Smith was crowned the Empress of the Blues, and, while this moniker was well deserved, she was much more. A prolific recording artist, Smith was quite an eclectic performer. In fact, she may have been one of the first true crossover artists. This neat two-disc set gives the listener a good sampling of her wide repertoire. Smith is backed up by some of the best jazz musicians of her era. Her rendition of "St Louis Blues" for example, features the horn work of a young Louis Armstrong. Smith was not above doing such suggestive material as "Kitchen Man" or "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and could breath new life into a pop chestnut like "Alexander's Ragtime Band." And when Smith sang "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," she knew what she was talking about. The title of this album says it all. --Lars GandilBlues Music CDs
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