“I'd totally forgotten about Bessie Smith until a few nights back... Oh, that's right, these songs are great. She really had something going back then.”Watch this moment
Tracklist
36 tracks · 113:41 · click to previewDisc 1
1
Aggravatin' Papa
3:18
2
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
2:57
3
'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
3:27
4
Jail-House Blues
3:15
5
Graveyard Dream Blues
2:45
6
Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
3:19
7
Boweavil Blues
2:53
8
Weeping Willow Blues
3:11
9
Dying Gambler's Blues
2:59
10
St. Louis Blues (with Louis Armstrong)
3:11
11
You've Been a Good Old Wagon
3:28
12
Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
3:10
13
Careless Love Blues (take 1)
3:26
14
I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle
3:22
15
At the Christmas Ball (78rpm Version)
3:25
16
Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town (78rpm Version)
3:20
17
Backwater Blues
3:19
18
After You've Gone
2:55
Disc 2
1
Alexander's Ragtime Band
3:00
2
There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
3:20
3
Trombone Cholly
3:11
4
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
3:22
5
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
2:59
6
Dyin' by the Hour
2:59
7
Me and My Gin
2:50
8
Kitchen Man (78 rpm Version)
2:56
9
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (78rpm Version)
2:58
10
On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
2:56
11
Moan, You Moaners
3:12
12
Black Mountain Blues
3:08
13
Shipwreck Blues
3:21
14
Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
2:48
15
Do Your Duty
3:26
16
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
3:30
17
Take Me for a Buggy Ride
2:37
18
Down in the Dumps
3:09
Last Session
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1960
Big Bad Bo
Bo Diddley
1974
The Black Gladiator
Bo Diddley
1970
Tell Mama
Etta James
1968
The Sermon!
Jimmy Smith
1959
First Recordings - EP
Junior Kimbrough
2009
Truckin' With Albert Collins
Albert Collins
1969
King Of The Blues Guitar (Reissue)
Albert King
1969
Born Under A Bad Sign
Albert King
1967
Singin' the Blues
B.B. King
1956
King Size
B.B. King
1977
Indianola Mississippi Seeds
B.B. King
1970
Have Guitar, Will Travel
Bo Diddley
1959
Another Dimension
Bo Diddley
1971
Two Steps from the Blues
Bobby "Blue" Bland
1961
Crescent Crawl
Bruce Katz
1992
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