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Greatest Hits
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Artist(s)Bessie Smith
StudioFabulous
Release DateJune 21, 2005
UPC Code824046200428
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Tracks

Disc 1
  1. Down Hearted Blues
  2. Gulf Coast Blues
  3. Jailhouse Blues
  4. St. Louis Gal
  5. Aggravatin' Papa
  6. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  7. Chicago Bound Blues
  8. T'Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do
  9. Any Woman's Blues
  10. Easy Come Easy Go Blues
  11. Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
  12. Hateful Blues
  13. Careless Love Blues
  14. New Gulf Coast Blues
  15. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
  16. Yello Dog Blues
  17. I Ain't Got Nobody
  18. What's the Matter Now
  19. Baby Doll
  20. Hard Driving Papa
  21. Gin House Blues
  22. Lost Your Head Blues
  23. After You've Gone
  24. Backwater Blues
Disc 2
  1. Preachin' the Blues
  2. Alexadner's Ragtime Band
  3. Good Man Is Hard to Find
  4. Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
  5. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
  6. Thinking Blues
  7. I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave
  8. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1
  9. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2
  10. Spider Man Blues
  11. Slow and Easy Man
  12. I'm Wild About That Thing
  13. You've Got to Give Me Some
  14. Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out
  15. Wasted Life Blues
  16. Don't Cry Baby
  17. Baby Have Pity on Me
  18. Hustlin' Dan
  19. Black Mountain Blues
  20. In the House Blues
  21. Blue Blue
  22. I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  23. Safety Mama
  24. Do Your Duty
  25. Gimme a Pig Foot and a Bottle of Beer

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User Reviews

Average user review: 4.0 (1 reviews)

rating: 4 QuoteThe QueenQuote
Elsewhere in this space I have mentioned that in the early days of the blues, at least the recorded blues, women vocalists dominated the market. One thinks of Mabel Smith and Ma Rainey in that regard. But the queen of the hill, and the one still best remembered, for roaring out those barrel house blues is Bessie Smith. This little two-disc compilation gives a very nice beginner cross section of the kind of subjects that she sang about-mainly broken-hearted love, no good men and the trials and tribulations of being a black women on her own.

Bessie music also represents the place, as with Blind Willie McTell on the male side, where the blues go from the Saturday night juke joints of the farm, make that cotton, country to the more sophisticated Southern city locales. Furthermore, she along with Memphis Minnie were the queens of the now lost art of sexual double entendre- you know, 'put a little sugar in my bowl', 'take me for a buggy ride' and other classic lines of that type.

Be aware in listening to this compilation that the quality of the early recordings can be a liitle grating on the ear but bear with it because this thing just grows on you. It is rather an acquired taste but one you have the Bessie in your head you will not want to turn the damn thing off. Top selections here are a moanful , weary Empty Bed Blues, St Louis Gal, Preachin Man Blues that later singers have covered. All these recordings all the essentials to bring you up to speed on Bessie. No way, but go back the first sentence- you will be saving your pennies to get the next album to get others. June 4, 2008

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