Album · Compilation

The Essence of Bessie Smith

Released 200646 tracks · 143:19EnglishDelta Music

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	Downhearted Blues	Bessie Smith	3:27
1.2	Gimme a Pigfoot	Bessie Smith	3:29
1.3	Baby Won't You Please Come Home	Bessie Smith	2:56
1.4	Taint Nobody's Business If I Do	Bessie Smith	3:27
1.5	Any Woman's Blues	Bessie Smith	3:26
1.6	Chicago Bound Blues	Bessie Smith	3:17
1.7	Graveyard Dream Blues	Bessie Smith	2:44
1.8	Jail House Blues	Bessie Smith	3:14
1.9	Lady Luck Blues	Bessie Smith	3:08
1.10	Boweavil Blues	Bessie Smith	2:52
1.11	Bye Bye Blues	Bessie Smith	3:18
1.12	House Rent Blues	Bessie Smith	3:06
1.13	Sing Sing Prison Blues	Bessie Smith	3:04
1.14	Woman's Trouble Blues	Bessie Smith	3:05
1.15	Work House Blues	Bessie Smith	3:21
1.16	Ain't Gonna Play Second Fiddle	Bessie Smith	3:21
1.17	St Louis Blues	Bessie Smith	3:10
1.18	Careless Love Blues	Bessie Smith	3:26
1.19	He’s Gone Blues	Bessie Smith	3:09
1.20	Love Me Daddy Blues	Bessie Smith	3:14
1.21	Sinful Blues	Bessie Smith	3:09
1.22	You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon	Bessie Smith	3:29
2.1	Young Woman’s Blues	Bessie Smith	3:08
2.2	Gin House Blues	Bessie Smith	3:13
2.3	Golden Rules	Bessie Smith	3:03
2.4	Hard Driving Papa	Bessie Smith	2:57
2.5	What’s the Matter Now?	Bessie Smith	2:45
2.6	A Good Man Is Hard to Find	Bessie Smith	2:59
2.7	Alexander’s Ragtime Band	Bessie Smith	2:59
2.8	After You’ve Gone	Bessie Smith	2:56
2.9	Blackwater Blues	Bessie Smith	3:18
2.10	Honey Man Blues	Bessie Smith	3:13
2.11	Lock and Key	Bessie Smith	2:58
2.12	Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)	Bessie Smith	3:06
2.13	Preachin’ the Blues	Bessie Smith	2:51
2.14	Send Me to the ’Lectric Chair	Bessie Smith	3:21
2.15	There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight	Bessie Smith	3:19
2.16	Dyin’ By the Hour	Bessie Smith	2:58
2.17	Foolish Man Blues	Bessie Smith	2:53
2.18	I’d Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave	Bessie Smith	2:57
2.19	Kitchen Man	Bessie Smith	2:56
2.20	Me and My Gin	Bessie Smith	2:50
2.21	Black Mountain Blues	Bessie Smith	3:07
2.22	On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)	Bessie Smith, The Bessemer Singers	2:55
2.23	I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl	Bessie Smith	2:47
2.24	Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out	Bessie Smith	2:58

Source: MusicBrainz release group 81eddf26-4979-4b9d-9e67-64ac773f00a7 (CC0). Cover: Cover Art Archive.