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Empty Bed Blues

Empty Bed Blues

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2010, Columbia
VINYL FORMAT. This collection of some of the best Bessie Smith recordings of 1927-1928 starts out quite happy with joyous versions of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "After You've Gone," and "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight," showing that Smith could turn anything into a blues. The mood darkens later in the program with such numbers as "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," "I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave," "It Won't Be You," and "Devil's Gonna Get You," but these songs are also leavened by some wit, as is the two-part "Empty Bed Blues." The Empress of the Blues was at the peak of her powers during this period and at the height of her commercial success. –allmusic.com
Tracklisting
Disc 1
1 Downhearted Blues
2 Keep On A Rainin'
3 St. Louis Blues
4 Cold in Hand Blues
5 Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home)
6 Yellow Dog Blues
7 At the Christmas Ball
8 Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town
9 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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