Greatest Hits

Original Release Date:  June 21, 2005

Track Listing

• 1. Down Hearted Blues
• 2. Gulf Coast Blues
• 3. Jailhouse Blues
• 4. St. Louis Gal
• 5. Aggravatin' Papa
• 6. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
• 7. Chicago Bound Blues
• 8. T'Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do
• 9. Any Woman's Blues
• 10. Easy Come Easy Go Blues
• 11. Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
• 12. Hateful Blues
• 13. Careless Love Blues
• 14. New Gulf Coast Blues
• 15. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
• 16. The Yello Dog Blues
• 17. I Ain't Got Nobody
• 18. What's the Matter Now
• 19. Baby Doll
• 20. Hard Driving Papa
• 21. The Gin House Blues
• 22. Lost Your Head Blues
• 23. After You've Gone
• 24. Backwater Blues
• 25. Preachin' the Blues
• 26. Alexadner's Ragtime Band
• 27. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
• 28. Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
• 29. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
• 30. Thinking Blues
• 31. I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave
• 32. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1
• 33. Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2
• 34. Spider Man Blues
• 35. Slow and Easy Man
• 36. I'm Wild About That Thing
• 37. You've Got to Give Me Some
• 38. Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out
• 39. Wasted Life Blues
• 40. Don't Cry Baby
• 41. Baby Have Pity on Me
• 42. Hustlin' Dan
• 43. Black Mountain Blues
• 44. In the House Blues
• 45. Blue Blue
• 46. I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
• 47. Safety Mama
• 48. Do Your Duty
• 49. Gimme a Pig Foot and a Bottle of Beer

Credits

• Bessie Smith: Vocals
• Buster Bailey: Clarinet
• Chu Berry: Sax (Tenor)
• Ida Cox: Composer
• Benny Goodman: Clarinet
• James P. Johnson: Piano
• Jack Teagarden: Trombone
• Louis Metcalf: Cornet
• Frankie Newton: Trumpet
• Don Redman: Clarinet
• Coleman Hawkins: Sax (Tenor)
• Ed Allen: Cornet
• Louis Armstrong: Clarinet, Cornet
• Garvin Bushell: Sax (Alto)
• Buddy Christian: Banjo
• Dennis Dean: Trumpet
• Charlie Dixon: Banjo
• Fletcher Henderson: Piano, Composer
• Porter Grainger: Piano
• Jimmy Jones: Piano
• Fred Longshaw: Piano
• John "J.R." Robinson: Composer
• Elmer Snowden: Banjo
• Joe "Fox" Smith: Cornet
• Cyrus St. Clair: Trombone
• Buck Washington: Piano
• Clarence Williams: Piano, Composer
• Spencer Williams: Composer
• Ernest Elliott: Clarinet
• Abraham Wheat: Clarinet, Soprano
• Charlie Green: Trombone
• Floyd Casey: Drums
• Irving Johns: Piano
• Greely Watson: Sax (Tenor)
• Henry Troy: Composer
• Bobby Johnson: Guitar
• Billy Taylor: Sax (Bass)
• Robert Robbins: Violin
• Isadore Myers: Piano