Empress of the Blues, Vol. 2 [Italy]

Original Release Date:  June 20, 2006

Track Listing

• 1. Cake Walkin' Babied (From Home)
• 2. The Yellow Dog Blues
• 3. Nashville Women's Blues
• 4. Carless Love Blues
• 5. J.C. Holmes Blues
• 6. I Ain't Goin to Play Second Fiddle
• 7. Nobody's Blues But Mine
• 8. I Ain't Got Nobody
• 9. At the Christmas Ball
• 10. Squeeze Me
• 11. I Want Every Bit of It
• 12. Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town
• 13. Honey Man Blues
• 14. One and Two Blues
• 15. Young Woman's Blues
• 16. Back Water Blues
• 17. After You've Gone
• 18. Alexander's Ragtime Band
• 19. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
• 20. There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
• 21. Trombone Cholly
• 22. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
• 23. Them's Graveyard Words
• 24. Lock and Key

Credits

• Bessie Smith: Composer, Vocals
• Steve Stevens: Piano
• Buster Bailey: Clarinet
• Chu Berry: Sax (Tenor)
• Benny Goodman: Clarinet
• James P. Johnson: Piano
• Jack Teagarden: Trombone
• Fats Waller: Composer
• Joe Williams: Trombone
• Frankie Newton: Trumpet
• W.C. Handy: Composer
• Don Redman: Clarinet
• Coleman Hawkins: Sax (Tenor)
• Ed Allen: Cornet
• Louis Armstrong: Cornet
• George Brooks: Composer
• Garvin Bushell: Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
• Peter DeRose: Composer
• Demas Dean: Cornet
• Charlie Dixon: Banjo
• Fletcher Henderson: Piano
• Porter Grainger: Piano
• Fred Longshaw: Piano
• Elmer Snowden: Banjo
• Cyrus St. Clair: Tuba
• Jo Trent: Composer
• Greely Walton: Sax (Tenor)
• Buck Washington: Piano, Leader
• Clarence Williams: Piano, Composer
• S. Williams: Composer
• Ernest Elliott: Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
• Charlie Green: Trombone
• Floyd Casey: Drums
• Bob Escudero: Tuba
• Harry Richman: Composer
• Irving Johns: Piano
• Bobby Johnson: Guitar
• Robert Robbins: Violin
• Isadore Myers: Piano
• George Baques: Clarinet
• Theodore Metz: Composer