2 sound discs (113 min., 42 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Notes:
Compact disc Biographical notes on Smith, by Chris Albertson, in booklet Roots n' blues series producer: Lawrence Cohn Bessie Smith, vocals ; with various instrumental accompaniment Recorded on various dates between April 11, 1923 and November 24, 1933 in New York City
Contents:
Disc one: Aggravatin' papa (3:16) Baby won't you please come home (2:55) 'Taint nobody's bizness if I do (3:26) Jail-house blues (3:13) Graveyard dream blues (2:43) Ticket agent, ease your window down (3:17) Boweavil blues (2:51) Weeping willow blues (3:09) Dying gambler's blues (2:57) St. Louis blues (3:10) You've been a good ole wagon (3:28) Cake walkin' babies from home (3:09) Careless love blues (3:25) I ain't goin' to play second fiddle (3:21) At the Christmas ball (3:24) Jazzbo Brown from Memphis town (3:19) Backwater blues (3:17) After you've gone. (2:56) Disc two: Alexander's ragtime band (2:58) There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight (3:18) Trombone Cholly (3:09) Send me to the 'lectric chair (3:29) A good man is hard to find (2:58) --Dyin' by the hour (2:58) Me and my gin (2:49) Kitchen man (2:55) Nobody knows you when you're down and out (2:56) On revival day [a rhythmic spiritual] (2:54) Moan, you moaners (3:11) Black mountain blues (3:07) Shipwreck blues (3:19) Need a little sugar in my bowl (2:47) Do your duty (3:23) Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer (3:28) Take me for a buggy ride (2:35) --Down in the dumps (3:09)
