1928-29

Bessie Smith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1996)
• Original Release Date: October 15, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jazz Chronological Classics
• ASIN: B000001NSR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,398,362 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1

2. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2

3. Put It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There)

4. Yes Indeed He Do!

5. Devil's Gonna Get You

6. You Ought to Be Ashamed

7. Washwoman's Blues

8. Slow and Easy Man

9. Poor Man's Blues

10. Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind

11. Me and My Gin

12. I'm Wild About That Thing

13. You've Got to Give Me Some

14. Kitchen Man

15. I've Got What It Takes (But It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away)

16. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

17. St. Louis Blues, Pt. 1

18. St. Louis Blues, Pt. 2

19. St. Louis Blues, Pt. 3

20. St. Louis Blues, Pt. 4

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Bessie..., January 1, 2005

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Sébastien Melmoth (Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 1928-29 (Audio CD)

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.