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Bessie Smith, The Collection

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1605013

Disk length: 42m 12s (12 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1989

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Downhearted Blues 3:27
2. Weepin' Willow Blues 3:13
3. St. Louis Blues 3:12
4. Reckless Blues 3:07
5. You've Been A Good Ole Wagon 3:28
6. Young Woman's Blues 3:12
7. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) 3:10
8. Mean Old Redbug Blues 3:14
9. Empty Bed Blues 6:26
10. Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out 3:00
11. Black Mountain Blues 3:11
12. Gimme A Pigfoot 3:29

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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.

The Collection

Tracks: 16 (+4 tracks), Disk length: 55m 53s (+13m 41s)

The Collection

Tracks: 16 (+4 tracks), Disk length: 55m 54s (+13m 42s)

The Collection

Tracks: 16 (+4 tracks), Disk length: 55m 55s (+13m 43s)

The Collection

Tracks: 16 (+4 tracks), Disk length: 55m 56s (+13m 44s)

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