Bessie Smith - 19281929 (23 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Bessie Smith
1928-1929
Genres: Blues, Jazz

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1 - Bessie Smith, Johnson, J.C. [Comp
2. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2 - Bessie Smith, Johnson, J.C. [Comp
3. Put It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There) - Bessie Smith, Grainger, Porter
4. Yes Indeed He Do! - Bessie Smith, Grainger, Porter
5. Devil's Gonna Get You - Bessie Smith, Grainger, Porter
6. You Ought to Be Ashamed - Bessie Smith, Grainger, Porter
7. Washwoman's Blues - Bessie Smith, Grainger, Porter
8. Slow and Easy Man - Bessie Smith, Red, Sonny
9. Poor Man's Blues - Bessie Smith, Smith, Bessie
10. Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind - Bessie Smith, Smith, Bessie
11. Me and My Gin - Bessie Smith, Burke, Harry
12. I'm Wild About That Thing - Bessie Smith, Williams, Spencer
13. You've Got to Give Me Some - Bessie Smith, Williams, Clarence
14. Kitchen Man - Bessie Smith, Belledna, A.
15. I've Got What It Takes (But It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away) - Bessie Smith, Jenkins, Harold
16. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Bessie Smith, Cox, James
17. St. Louis Blues, Pt. 1 - Bessie Smith, Handy, W.C.
18. St. Louis Blues, Pt. 2 - Bessie Smith, Handy, W.C.
19. St. Louis Blues, Pt. 3 - Bessie Smith, Handy, W.C.
20. St. Louis Blues, Pt. 4 - Bessie Smith, Handy, W.C.
21. Take It Right Back - Bessie Smith, Gray, H.
22. He's Got Me Goin' - Bessie Smith, Gray, H.
23. It Makes My Love Come Down - Bessie Smith, Smith, Bessie

CD Details

All Artists: Bessie Smith
Title: 1928-1929
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Classics France/Trad Alive
Release Date: 11/19/1996
Genres: Blues, Jazz
Styles: Vocal Blues, Traditional Blues, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

CD Reviews

Classic Bessie...

Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 01/01/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This disc features the classic tracks Bessie recorded with Clarence Williams (piano) and Eddie Lang (guitar)--some of Lang's best work! The songs reflect Bessie's quintessential ethos: playful sexual innuendo--especially the combination of food & sex, as featured in "Kitchen Man," etc.

The St. Louis Blues tracks are from the early talkie Bessie stared in: the sound is a little rough, but the tracks are historically significant."