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Bessie Smith Volume 1- Downhearted Blues (1923-1924)

Selected songs including 'Downhearted Blues', 'Gulf Coast Blues' and more

Bessie Smith (vocal), Clarence Williams (piano) and more

  • Catalogue No: 8120660
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Jazz Legends
  • Length: 58 minutes

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Contents

Lovie Austin: Downhearted Blues

Work length3:27
$1.00
$1.30
  • Clarence Williams (piano), Bessie Smith (vocals)
  • Recorded: 16 February 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Clarence Williams: Gulf Coast Blues

Work length3:05
$1.00
$1.30
  • Clarence Williams (piano), Bessie Smith (vocals)
  • Recorded: 16 February 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Porter Grainger: Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do

Work length3:27
$1.00
$1.30
  • Clarence Williams (piano), Bessie Smith (vocals)
  • Recorded: 26 April 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

'Taint Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do

Track length3:27
$1.00
$1.30

Max Kortlander: Keeps On A-Rainin'

Work length3:06
$1.00
$1.30
  • Clarence Williams (piano), Bessie Smith (vocals)
  • Recorded: 26 April 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Clarence Williams: Yodling Blues

Work length3:11
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Fletcher Henderson (piano)
  • Recorded: 4 June 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Lovie Austin: Bleeding Hearted Blues

Work length3:08
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Fletcher Henderson (piano)
  • Recorded: 14 june 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Clarence Williams: Lady Luck Blues

Work length3:07
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Fletcher Henderson (piano)
  • Recorded: 14 June 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Clarence Williams: If You Don't I Know Who Will

Work length3:32
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Fletcher Henderson (piano)
  • Recorded: 22 June 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Clarence Williams: Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine

Work length3:27
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Fletcher Henderson (piano)
  • Recorded: 22 June 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Clarence Williams: Jail House Blues

Work length3:18
$1.00
$1.30
  • Irving Johns (piano), Bessie Smith (vocals)
  • Recorded: 21 September 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Ida Cox: Graveyard Dream Blues

Work length2:47
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Jimmy Jones (piano)
  • Recorded: 26 September 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Sid Laney: Cemetery Blues

Work length3:34
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Jimmy Jones (piano)
  • Recorded: 26 September 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Lovie Austin: Any Woman's Blues

Work length3:29
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Fletcher Henderson (piano)
  • Recorded: 16 October 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Porter Grainger: Mistreatin' Daddy

Work length3:20
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Fletcher Henderson (piano), Don Redman (clarinet)
  • Recorded: 4 December 1923
  • Recording Venue: New York

Will Jackson: Easy Come, Easy Go Blues

Work length3:11
$1.00
$1.30
  • Bessie Smith (vocals), Jimmy Jones (piano), Harry Reser (guitar)
  • Recorded: 10 January 1924
  • Recording Venue: New York

Gertrude Rainey: Moonshine Blues

Work length3:18
$1.00
$1.30
  • Irving Johns (piano), Bessie Smith (vocals)
  • Recorded: 9 April 1924
  • Recording Venue: New York

Gertrude Rainey: Boweavil Blues

Work length2:55
$1.00
$1.30
  • Irving Johns (piano), Bessie Smith (vocals)
  • Recorded: 7 April 1924
  • Recording Venue: New York

Perry Bradford: Hateful Blues

Work length3:08
$1.00
$1.30
  • Irving Johns (piano), Bessie Smith (vocals), Robert Robbins (violin)
  • Recorded: 8 April 1924
  • Recording Venue: New York

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