Title: Anthology Artist: Bessie Smith Label: Not Now UK Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060143493423 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2010-03-15 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT
Decades of blues and jazz vocalists sang in the shadow of the Empress, whose powerhouse voice still packs a wallop nearly 90 years later. Here are more than two hours of key cuts: her hits Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; T'ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do, and Aggravatin' Papa plus Gin House Blues; Downhearted Blues; Dyin' by the Hour; Lock and Key; Sinful Blues, and more!
Tracks: 1.1 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 1.2 Gin House Blues 1.3 Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair 1.4 T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do 1.5 I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl 1.6 After You've Gone 1.7 Careless Love Blues 1.8 Preachin' the Blues 1.9 Black Mountain Blues 1.10 Sinful Blues 1.11 Homeless Blues 1.12 Downhearted Blues 1.13 Any Woman's Blues 1.14 He's Gone Blues 1.15 Graveyard Dream Blues 1.16 Lady Luck Blues 1.17 The Bye Bye Blues 1.18 House Rent Blues 1.19 Woman's Trouble Blues 1.20 Work House Blues 1.21 I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle 1.22 Love Me Daddy Blues 1.23 St Louis Blues 1.24 Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer) 2.1 Hard Driving Papa 2.2 Me and My Gin 2.3 Dyin' By the Hour 2.4 I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave 2.5 Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Two Time Me) 2.6 Lock and Key 2.7 On Revival Day 2.8 Looking for My Man Blues 2.9 There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight 2.10 Back Water Blues 2.11 Young Woman's Blues 2.12 A Good Man Is Hard to Find 2.13 Baby Won't You Please Come Home 2.14 Golden Rule Blues 2.15 What's the Matter Now 2.16 Honeyman Blues 2.17 Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) 2.18 Foolish Man Blues 2.19 Kitchen Man 2.20 Gulf Coast Blues 2.21 Foolish Man Blues 2.22 Chicago Bound Blues 2.23 Alexander's Ragtime Band 2.24 Sing Sing Prison Blues
