The Essential Bessie Smith

• 1
  Aggravatin' Papa
  —3:16
• 2
  Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  —2:55
• 3
  'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
  —3:28
• 4
  Jail-House Blues
  —3:17
• 5
  Graveyard Dream Blues
  —2:43
• 6
  Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
  —3:17
• 7
  Boweavil Blues
  —2:51
• 8
  Weeping Willow Blues
  —3:09
• 9
  Dying Gambler's Blues
  —2:57
• 10
  St. Louis Blues (with Louis Armstrong)

  Louis Armstrong
  —3:09
• 11
  You've Been a Good Old Wagon
  —3:28
• 12
  Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
  —3:09
• 13
  Careless Love Blues (take 1)
  —3:24
• 14
  I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle
  —3:21
• 15
  At the Christmas Ball (78rpm Version)
  —3:24
• 16
  Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town (78rpm Version)
  —3:19
• 17
  Backwater Blues
  —3:16
• 18
  After You've Gone
  —2:56
• 19
  Alexander's Ragtime Band
  —2:58
• 20
  There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  —3:18
• 21
  Trombone Cholly
  —3:09
• 22
  Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
  —3:22
• 23
  A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  —2:58
• 24
  Dyin' by the Hour
  —2:58
• 25
  Me and My Gin
  —2:49

Previews are 30-second clips from Spotify when available.

More by Bessie Smith

• 
  The Best of Bessie Smith
  2015
• 
  The Complete Recordings, Vol. 5: The Final Chapter
  1996
• 
  The Complete Recordings, Vol. 4
  1993
• 
  The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3
  1992
• 
  The Complete Recordings, Vol. 2
  1991
• 
  The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1
  1991

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