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Do Your Duty: The Essential Recordings of Bessie Smith

Do Your Duty: The Essential Recordings of Bessie Smith

  • Artist: Bessie Smith
  • Label: Indigo
  • Availability: Sold out
  • Item #: 21522874
  • List Price: $12.98
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Tracks + Soundclips

Do Your Duty: The Essential Recordings of Bessie Smith
1. Do Your Duty
2. Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
3. Take Me for a Buggy Ride
4. After You've Gone
5. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
6. St. Louis Blues
7. Reckless Blues
8. Cold in Hand Blues
9. Careless Love
10. Nashville Woman's Blues
11. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
12. Backwater Blues
13. Sinful Blues
14. Sam Jones Blues
15. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
16. J.C. Holmes Blues
17. Kitchen Man
18. Weeping Willow Blues
19. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1
20. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2
21. Downhearted Blues
22. Jailhouse Blues

Details and Credits

Product Details
  • Label: Indigo
  • Release date: 1995
  • Best of
Styles
  • Classic Female Blues
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Benny Goodman Clarinet
Bessie Smith Vocals
Billy Taylor, Sr. Bass
Buck Washington Piano
Buster Bailey Clarinet
Charles Dixon Banjo
Charlie Green Bass
Chu Berry Sax (Tenor)
Clarence Williams Piano
Ed Allen Cornet
Eddie Lang Guitar
Fletcher Henderson Piano
Frankie Newton Trumpet
Fred Longshaw Piano
Garvin Bushell Sax (Alto)
Greely Watson Sax (Tenor)
Irving Johns Piano
Jack Teagarden Trombone
James P. Johnson Piano
Jimmy Harrison Bass
Joe "Fox" Smith Cornet
Louis Armstrong Cornet
Porter Grainger Piano
Technical Credits
Chris Myers Illustrations
Cyrus St. Clair Brass Band
Les Fancourt Liner Notes