Bessie Smith: Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out
Artist: Bessie Smith
Label: Rev-Ola
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929452022
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2007-10-30
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: ASIA - IMPORT

Known at her peak, and forevermore as 'The Empress of the Blues,' Bessie Smith was possibly the first and greatest of the Blues divas and certainly the first to have hit records. A protégé of the great Ma Rainey, by the early 1920s, Bessie Smith was already a superstar, backed on record by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Joe Smith, James P. Johnson, and Charlie Green. Her elaborate live shows Harlem Frolics and Mississippi Days were smash hits throughout the decade; the Blues were in and trendy, and Bessie was at the top of her game. Features 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out', 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find', 'Summertime', 'Baby, Won't You Please Come Home', 'Empty Bed Blues (pts. 1&2)', 'Alexander's Ragtime Band', 'Aggravatin' Papa', 'After You've Gone' and many more. Rev-Ola. 2007.

Tracks:
1.1 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
1.2 Good Man Is Hard to Find
1.3 Kitchen Man
1.4 Summertime
1.5 Baby Won't You Please Come Home
1.6 Hot Springs Blues
1.7 Empty Bed Blues
1.8 Lonesome Desert Blues
1.9 Me and My Gin
1.10 Lady Luck Blues
1.11 Alexander's Ragtime Band
1.12 Aggravatin' Papa
1.13 After You've Gone
1.14 Weeping Willow Blues
1.15 Trombone Cholly
1.16 Down Hearted Blues
1.17 St Louis Blues
1.18 Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
1.19 Blue Blue
1.20 Back Water Blues
1.21 Cake Walking Babies from Home
1.22 Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town