Bessie Smith › The Rough Guide to Blues Legends (2-CD)

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Number of Discs: 2
Released: August 7, 2012
Label: World Music Network

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Down Hearted Blues
2.A Good Man is Hard To Find
3.I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
4.Careless Love
5.Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
6.T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
7.I Need a Little Sugar In My Bowl
8.Send Me To the 'Lectric Chair
9.Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
10.Empty Bed Blues (Part One)
11.Empty Bed Blues (Part Two)
12.Back Water Blues
13.The Yellow Dog Blues
14.Me and My Gin
15.St Louis Blues
16.Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
17.Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
18.After You've Gone
19.Jailhouse Blues
20.Dirty No-Gooder's Blues
21.I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried In My Grave

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Coffee Grindin' Blues
2.My Stove's In Good Condition
3.Knockin' Myself Out
4.Dirty Mother For You
5.Short John
6.Dope Head Blues
7.Love Shows Weakness
8.When I Get Low I Get High
9.Jack I'm Mellow
10.I'm a Mighty Tight Woman
11.One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
12.Oh What a Dream

Product Description:

Photographer: Carl Van Vechten.

Translators: Ir?ne Rognier; Isaac G¢mez Martel.

The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith condenses the career of one of the 20th century's most singular singers. Jumping around her discography, the anthology moves from Smith's debut recording (1923's sweetly aching "Down Hearted Blues") to hits (the lamenting "A Good Man Is Hard to Find") and covers (her essential "St. Louis Blues" with Louis Armstrong, the aloof "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"), as well as her forays into Tin Pan Alley ("Muddy Water [A Mississippi Moan]") and soulful ballads ("Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer"). Accompanying Smith's offerings is a bonus disc featuring her contemporaries (Lucille Bogan, Memphis Minnie) and artists who continued her legacy (Ruth Brown, Big Maybelle).