Bessie Smith

An Introduction to Bessie Smith: Her Best Recordings 1923-1933

Release date 1996

Tracklist

1
Down Hearted Blues
3:27
3:27
2
Jail House Blues
3:15
3:15
3
My Sweetie Went Away (She Didn’t Say Where, When or Why)
3:12
3:12
4
Any Woman's Blues
3:27
3:27
5
Weeping Willow Blues
3:10
3:10
6
The St. Louis Blues
3:11
3:11
7
Cold in Hand Blues
3:14
3:14
8
You've Been a Good Old Wagon
3:30
3:30
9
Cake Walkin' Babies From Home
3:10
3:10
10
Careless Love Blues
3:27
3:27
11
Baby Doll
3:00
3:00
12
Hard Time Blues
3:14
3:14
13
Young Woman’s Blues
3:08
3:08
14
Preachin' the Blues
2:52
2:52
15
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
3:00
3:00
16
Trombone Cholly
3:12
3:12
17
Dyin' by the Hour
3:00
3:00
18
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
2:58
2:58
19
He's Got Me Goin'
3:14
3:14
20
Shipwreck Blues
3:22
3:22
21
Do Your Duty
3:26
3:26
22
Gimme a Pigfoot
3:30
3:30