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Empty Bed Blues [Living Era] - Bessie Smith
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Track Listing
  1. Downhearted Blues
  2. Keep on A-Rainin'
  3. St. Louis Blues
  4. Cold in Hand Blues
  5. Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home)
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  1. Downhearted Blues
  2. Keep on A-Rainin'
  3. St. Louis Blues
  4. Cold in Hand Blues
  5. Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home)
  6. The Yellow Dog Blues
  7. At the Christmas Ball
  8. Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town
  9. The Gin House Blues
  10. Baby Doll
  11. Lost Your Head Blues
  12. Backwater Blues
  13. Trombone Cholly
  14. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
  15. Dyin' by the Hour
  16. Empty Bed Blues
  17. Put It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There)
  18. I'm Wild About That Thing
  19. Kitchen Man
  20. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  21. New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
  22. Do Your Duty
  23. Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
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Bessie Smith was enormously popular, selling millions of records as one of the leading classic blues singers, a diva-featuring genre that drew from early 20th century vaudeville, jazz, and popular music. Smith recorded plenty of 12-bar blues, including raunchier songs like "Kitchen Man." Other songs, like W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues," were built like Tin Pan Alley tunes but were given the blues-like accompaniment of piano and one horn. The sideman credits reveal the degree of Smith's stardom in the '20s; on these ...

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Empty Bed Blues [Living Era] 1996, ASV/Living Era

UPC: 743625521320

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