Bessie Smith - 1923 {The Chronological Classics, 761}

• Title: 1923
  
• Year Of Release: 1994
  
• Label: Classics Rec.
  
• Genre: Female Blues, Early Jazz
  
• Quality: FLAC (*tracks + .cue,log)
  
• Total Time: 01:14:08
  
• Total Size: 262 mb (+5%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

This document of Smith's first year in the studio reveals a blues giant in full command of her talents. And while later dates -- especially the epochal 1925 sessions with Louis Armstrong -- offer more in the way of the era's horn-blowing royalty, these early sides nicely showcase Smith in the unadorned company of a variety of top pianists like Clarence Williams and Fletcher Henderson. The Empress of the Blues flexes her vocal muscle throughout, ranging from Broadway fare like "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" to the dark-hued rumblings of "Graveyard Dream Blues." She also revels in the provocative ambiguities of "Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll" and puts her stamp on the future blues warhorse "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do." From the opening strain of her first best-seller, "Downhearted Blues," until the end of the disc, lovers of classic female blues will find plenty here to keep them enthralled.


Tracks:

01. Down-Hearted Blues (3:28)
02. Gulf Coast Blues (3:07)
03. Aggravatin' Papa (3:18)
04. Beale Street Mama (3:35)
05. Baby Won't You Please Come Home Blues (2:58)
06. Oh Daddy (You Won't Have No Mama at All) (3:06)
07. 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do (3:26)
08. Keeps on A-Rainin' (Papa He Can't Make No Time) (3:07)
09. Mama's Got the Blues (2:58)
10. Outside of That (3:30)
11. Bleeding Hearted Blues (3:09)
12. Lady Luck Blues (3:09)
13. Yodling Blues (3:12)
14. Midnight Blues (3:18)
15. If You Don't I Know Who Will (3:35)
16. Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine (3:31)
17. Jail House Blues (3:16)
18. St. Louis Gal (3:29)
19. Sam Jones Blues (2:49)
20. Graveyard Dream Blues (2:45)
21. Cemetary Blues (3:30)
22. Far Away Blues (3:00)
23. I'm Going Back to My Used to Be (2:52)

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