Do Your Duty: The Essential Recordings of Bessie Smith
- Artist: Bessie Smith
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: CD
- Availability: On Back Order
- Item #: 21522874
- List Price: $12.98
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| 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 |
Styles
- Classic Female Blues
- Early Jazz
Album Credits
- Bessie Smith : Vocals
- Benny Goodman : Clarinet
- James P. Johnson : Piano
- Eddie Lang : Guitar
- Jack Teagarden : Trombone
- Louis Armstrong : Cornet
- Fletcher Henderson : Piano
- Clarence Williams : Piano
- Chu Berry : Sax (Tenor)
- Charlie Green : Bass
- Frankie Newton : Trumpet
- Buster Bailey : Clarinet
- Ed Allen : Cornet
- Garvin Bushell : Sax (Alto)
- Porter Grainger : Piano
- Jimmy Harrison : Bass
- Fred Longshaw : Piano
- Joe "Fox" Smith : Cornet
- Buck Washington : Piano
- Billy Taylor, Sr. : Bass
- Charles Dixon : Banjo
- Irving Johns : Piano
- Greely Watson : Sax (Tenor)
Technical Credits
- Cyrus St. Clair : Brass Band
- Les Fancourt : Liner Notes
- Chris Myers : Illustrations
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