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  • Audio CD (November 19, 1996)
  • Original Release Date: July 13, 1994
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Classics
  • ASIN: B000001NP6
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #903,710 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

 
1. Downhearted Blues
2. Gulf Coast Blues
3. Aggravatin' Papa
4. Beale Street Mama
5. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
6. Oh Daddy! You Won't Have No Mama at All
7. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
8. Keeps on A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time)
9. Mama's Got the Blues
10. Outside of That
11. Bleeding Hearted Blues
12. Lady Luck Blues
13. Yodling Blues
14. Midnight Blues
15. If You Don't, I Know Who Will
16. Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
17. Jailhouse Blues
18. St. Louis Gal
19. Sam Jones Blues
20. Graveyard Dream Blues
See all 23 tracks on this disc

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bessie's First Tracks..., May 21, 2008
By Jules César (Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1923 (Audio CD)
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Bessie Smith was a powerful vocalist with a big clear alto timbre and excellent English diction.
She had a great sense of humour, invoking both urban and rural observations.
In her song-art she expresses facets of her strong personality: a justified indignation over the Jim Crow abuse of Negros in the United States; a certain fatalism concerning her own life under such conditions; and a raw sexual vitality.
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This 1994 issue from the great Chronological Classics series from France features Smith's first recorded tracks. (She had only about a decade of record productivity: 1923-33.)
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On the first eight sides Bessie is accompanied by the great Clarence Williams whose measured pianism is extremely attractive, making "Down-Hearted Blues" and other songs sound more like a duo for alto and piano, rather than mere background for a vocalist.
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"Aggravatin' Papa" includes a skilled banjoist and a goosey clarinettest which, combined with the humorous lyrics, make for a very fun-filled song.
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"Baby Won't You Please Come Home Blues" (with the flip-side of "Oh, Daddy Blues") are some of Smith and Williams' most catchy tunes--not to mention the famous "'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do" (later redone by Billie Holiday).
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"'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do" in fact sums up Bessie Smith's ethos and life most succinctly: rough, sad, but independent and defiant.
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