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- Date Released: November 20, 2006
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Jazz/Blues
- Label: mBopGlobal-Capriccio / IODA
The greatest classic blues singer of all.
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We Say...
At a time when blues was a vocal art, Bessie Smith was the greatest classic blues singer of all. Though every bit as boisterous as her reputation suggests, Bessie brought great subtlety and nuance to her powerhouse voice. She worried every word she sang, her phrasing and intonation squeezing out every possible drop of meaning. Backed initially by a solo pianist and then by jazz bands, she used that darkly blue voice like another instrument, sliding, slurring, moaning, growling, crying, scatting and swinging through a stunning range of material such as “Back Water,” “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl” and “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.”
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Downhearted Blues (Album) |
3:27 |
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| 02. | |
Gimme A Pigfoot (Album) |
3:29 |
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| 03. | |
Baby Wont You Please Come Home (Album) |
2:56 |
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Taint Nobodys Business If I Do (Album) |
3:27 |
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Any Womans Blues (Album) |
3:26 |
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Chicago Bound Blues (Album) |
3:17 |
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Graveyard Dream Blues (Album) |
2:44 |
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Jail House Blues (Album) |
3:14 |
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Lady Luck Blues (Album) |
3:08 |
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Boweavil Blues (Album) |
2:52 |
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| 11. | |
Bye Bye Blues (Album) |
3:18 |
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| 12. | |
House Rent Blues (Album) |
3:06 |
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| 13. | |
Sing Sing Prison Blues (Album) |
3:04 |
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| 14. | |
Womans Trouble Blues (Album) |
3:05 |
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| 15. | |
Work House Blues (Album) |
3:21 |
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Aint Gonna Paly Second Fiddle (Album) |
3:21 |
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| 17. | |
St Louis Blues (Album) |
3:10 |
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| 18. | |
Careless Love Blues (Album) |
3:26 |
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| 19. | |
He's Gone Blues (Album) |
3:09 |
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| 20. | |
Love me Daddy Blues (Album) |
3:14 |
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| 21. | |
Sinful Blues (Album) |
3:09 |
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| 22. | |
You’ve Been A Good Old Wagon (Album) |
3:29 |
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22 Total Tracks, 70:52 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Young Womans Blues (Album) |
3:08 |
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| 02. | |
Gin House Blues (Album) |
3:13 |
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| 03. | |
Golden Rules (Album) |
3:03 |
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| 04. | |
Hard Driving Papa (Album) |
2:57 |
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| 05. | |
Whats The Matter Now (Album) |
2:45 |
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| 06. | |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Album) |
2:59 |
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| 07. | |
Alexanders Ragtime Band (Album) |
2:58 |
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| 08. | |
After You’ve Gone (Album) |
2:56 |
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| 09. | |
Back Water Blues (Album) |
3:18 |
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| 10. | |
Honeyman Blues (Album) |
3:13 |
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| 11. | |
Lock And Key (Album) |
2:58 |
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| 12. | |
Muddy Waters (Album) |
3:06 |
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| 13. | |
Preachin The Blues (Album) |
2:51 |
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| 14. | |
Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair (Album) |
3:21 |
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| 15. | |
Therell Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight (Album) |
3:49 |
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| 16. | |
Dyin By The Hour (Album) |
2:58 |
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| 17. | |
Foolish Man Blues (Album) |
2:53 |
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| 18. | |
Id Rather Be Dead And Buried In My Grave (Album) |
2:57 |
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| 19. | |
Kitchen Man (Album) |
2:56 |
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| 20. | |
Me And My Gin (Album) |
2:50 |
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| 21. | |
Black Mountain Blues (Album) |
3:07 |
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| 22. | |
On Revival Day (Album) |
2:55 |
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| 23. | |
I Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl (Album) |
2:47 |
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| 24. | |
Nobody Knows You When Your Down And Out (Album) |
2:58 |
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24 Total Tracks, 72:56 Total Length
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