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The Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith

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Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	Down Hearted Blues	Bessie Smith	3:27
1.2	A Good Man Is Hard to Find	Bessie Smith	3:02
1.3	I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle	Bessie Smith	3:22
1.4	Careless Love	Bessie Smith	3:25
1.5	Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)	Bessie Smith	3:10
1.6	T’Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do	Bessie Smith	3:31
1.7	I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl	Bessie Smith	2:52
1.8	Send Me to the ’Lectric Chair	Bessie Smith	3:25
1.9	Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer	Bessie Smith	3:31
1.10	Empty Bed Blues (Part One)	Bessie Smith	3:04
1.11	Empty Bed Blues (Part Two)	Bessie Smith	3:21
1.12	Back Water Blues	Bessie Smith	3:19
1.13	The Yellow Dog Blues	Bessie Smith	3:04
1.14	Me and My Gin	Bessie Smith	2:52
1.15	St Louis Blues	Bessie Smith	3:11
1.16	Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town	Bessie Smith	3:20
1.17	Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out	Bessie Smith	3:00
1.18	After You’ve Gone	Bessie Smith	2:58
1.19	Jailhouse Blues	Bessie Smith	3:15
1.20	Dirty No‐Gooder’s Blues	Bessie Smith	2:46
1.21	I’d Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave	Bessie Smith	2:48
2.1	Coffee Grindin’ Blues	Lucille Bogan	3:27
2.2	My Stove’s in Good Condition	Lil Johnson	2:54
2.3	Knockin’ Myself Out	Lil Green	3:01
2.4	Dirty Mother for You	Memphis Minnie	2:49
2.5	Short John	Dinah Washington	2:54
2.6	Dope Head Blues	Victoria Spivey	3:21
2.7	Love Shows Weakness	Yas Yas Girl	2:41
2.8	When I Get Low I Get High	Ella Fitzgerald	2:26
2.9	Jack I’m Mellow	Trixie Smith	2:46
2.10	I’m a Mighty Tight Woman	Sippie Wallace	2:55
2.11	One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show	Big Maybelle	2:52
2.12	Oh What a Dream	Ruth Brown	2:53

Source: MusicBrainz release group ebb1027f-f70d-49ac-a9b5-9f11619eccea (CC0). Cover: Cover Art Archive.