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Bessie Smith, The Collection
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1603629
Disk length: 55m 56s (16 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1923
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Downhearted Blues | 3:28 |
| 2. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do | 3:30 |
| 3. My Sweetie Went Away | 3:14 |
| 4. Weepin' Willow Blues | 3:13 |
| 5. St. Louis Blues | 3:12 |
| 6. Reckless Blues | 3:06 |
| 7. You've Been A Good Ole Wagon | 3:30 |
| 8. I Ain't Gonna Play o Second Fiddle | 3:23 |
| 9. Young Woman's Blues | 3:11 |
| 10. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) | 3:09 |
| 11. Mean Old Bedbug Blues | 3:14 |
| 12. Empty Bed Blues (Parts 1 & 2) | 6:25 |
| 13. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out | 3:00 |
| 14. Black Mountain Blues | 3:11 |
| 15. Do Your Duty | 3:28 |
| 16. Gimme A Pigfoot | 3:32 |
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Review
Backed by a rotating roster of jazz stars, Smith's potent delivery made her a peerless star of classic female blues, combining a fiercely independent, almost defiant approach with subtly effective tinges of vulnerability. Early cuts such as "Downhearted Blues," which supposedly saved Columbia records from extinction in 1923, and "T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do" feature only Clarence Williams's piano behind her, but it's her work with Louis Armstrong that truly stands out-Satchmo majestically bobs and weaves his cornet around Smith's lines on "St. Louis Blues," "Reckless Blues," "I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle," and the ragtime chestnut "You've Been a Good Old Wagon." Unfortunately, Columbia offers buyers only two options: this cursory 16-song introduction or an exhaustive five-volume double-CD series. --Marc Greilsamer
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 16, Disk length: 55m 55s (-1m 59s)
Tracks: 16, Disk length: 55m 54s (-1m 58s)
Tracks: 16, Disk length: 55m 53s (-1m 57s)
Tracks: 12 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 42m 12s (-14m 16s)
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