The Essential Bessie Smith

1. 1.Aggravatin' Papa3:19
2. 2.Baby Won't You Please Come Home2:57
3. 3.'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do3:28
4. 4.Jail-House Blues3:15
5. 5.Graveyard Dream Blues2:45
6. 6.Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down3:20
7. 7.Boweavil Blues2:53
8. 8.Weeping Willow Blues3:11
9. 9.Dying Gambler's Blues2:59
10. 10.St. Louis Blues (with Louis Armstrong)3:12
11. 11.You've Been a Good Old Wagon3:29
12. 12.Cake Walkin' Babies from Home3:11
13. 13.Careless Love Blues (take 1)3:27
14. 14.I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle3:23
15. 15.At the Christmas Ball (78rpm Version)3:26
16. 16.Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town (78rpm Version)3:21
17. 17.Backwater Blues3:19
18. 18.After You've Gone2:56
19. 19.Alexander's Ragtime Band3:01
20. 20.There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight3:20
21. 21.Trombone Cholly3:12
22. 22.Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair3:23
23. 23.A Good Man Is Hard to Find3:00
24. 24.Dyin' by the Hour3:00
25. 25.Me and My Gin2:51
26. 26.Kitchen Man (78 rpm Version)2:57
27. 27.Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (78rpm Version)2:58
28. 28.On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)2:57
29. 29.Moan, You Moaners3:13
30. 30.Black Mountain Blues3:09
31. 31.Shipwreck Blues3:22
32. 32.Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl2:49
33. 33.Do Your Duty3:26
34. 34.Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer3:31
35. 35.Take Me for a Buggy Ride2:37
36. 36.Down in the Dumps3:09