The Undisputed Queen of the Blues

~ Release by Bessie Smith (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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1▼CD
#TitleRatingLength
1St. Louis Blues
3:12
2Sobbin’ Hearted Blues
3:02
3You’ve Been a Good Ole Wagon
3:31
4Careless Love Blues
3:27
5Young Woman’s Blues
3:08
6Alexander’s Ragtime Band
3:00
7Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
3:21
8I Want Every Bit of It
2:38
9Cake Walkin’ Babies From Home
3:11
10Down Hearted Blues
3:28
11Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home?
2:58
12T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
3:29
13Any Woman’s Blues
3:27
14Moonshine Blues
3:19
15Weeping Willow Blues
3:12
16Dying Gambler’s Blues
3:00
17Hard Time Blues
3:15
18Lost Your Head Blues
2:55
19Hard Driving Papa
2:58
20Gin House Blues
3:14
2▼CD
#TitleRatingLength
1Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer)
3:30
2Take Me for a Buggy Ride
2:37
3Do Your Duty
double bass:
Billy Taylor Sr. (jazz bassist) (on 1933-11-24)
guitar:
Bobby Johnson (US guitarist) (on 1933-11-24)
piano:
Buck Washington (on 1933-11-24)
tenor saxophone:
Leon “Chu” Berry (on 1933-11-24)
trombone:
Jack Teagarden (on 1933-11-24)
trumpet:
Frankie Newton (on 1933-11-24)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1933-11-24)
recording of:
Do Your Duty (on 1933-11-24)
writer:
Wesley A. Wilson
3:26
4I’m Down in the Dumps
3:11
5Send Me to the ’lectric Chair
recording of:
Send Me to the ’Lectric Chair (on 1927-03-03)
lyricist and composer:
George Brooks (composer, early 20th century)
3:23
6Empty Bed Blues Pt. 1
3:03
7Empty Bed Blues Pt. 2
3:22
8There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
3:20
9Trombone Cholly
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1927-03-03)
recording of:
Trombone Cholly (on 1927-03-03)
writer:
George Brooks and George Johnson (1930s American jazz musician, worked primarily in Europe)
3:12
10Kitchen Man
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1929-05-08)
guitar:
Eddie Lang (US jazz guitarist, also recorded as Blind Willie Dunn) (on 1929-05-08)
piano:
Clarence Williams (US jazz pianist, composer, singer and bandleader) (on 1929-05-08)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1929-05-08)
recording of:
Kitchen Man (on 1929-05-08)
lyricist and composer:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer)
2:58
11I’m Wild About That Thing
2:49
12Me and My Gin
2:52
13Poor Man’s Blues
3:26
14Dyin’ by the Hour
3:00
15I’ve Got What It Takes (but It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away)
3:11
16He’s Got Me Goin’
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1929-08-20)
piano:
James P. Johnson (on 1929-08-20)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1929-08-20)
recording of:
He's Got Me Goin' (on 1929-08-20)
writer:
Michael H. Gray
3:14
17Dirty No‐Gooder’s Blues
2:57
18Black Mountain Blues
3:09
19Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
2:49
20Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1929-05-15)
alto saxophone:
Garvin Bushell (on 1929-05-15)
cornet:
Ed Allen (trumpeter) (on 1929-05-15)
piano:
Clarence Williams (US jazz pianist, composer, singer and bandleader) (on 1929-05-15)
tenor saxophone:
Greely Walton (on 1929-05-15)
tuba:
Cyrus St. Clair (on 1929-05-15)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1929-05-15)
recording of:
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out (on 1929-05-15)
lyricist and composer:
Jimmy Cox
publisher:
B. Feldman & Co. Ltd. (publisher est. 1946), EMI Music Ltd., Help, I’m a Publisher and MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated)
part of:
The Real Book (compilation of jazz standards, Volume I)
52:59