BESSIE SMITH - The Complete Recordings Vol. 1 (1923-1924) 2CD (1991) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Bessie Smith wasn't the first of the classic blues singers to record, but once she did, she became the form's dominant force, with a voice that combined clear diction, great power, and a unique capacity to convey complex emotions. Weariness gives way to resilience and sorrow to joyous triumph in Smith's performances, and there's nobility in her delivery of even the sometimes tritely comic lyrics she sang. This is the first of five two-CD sets that gather all her known recordings. The first 38 songs, from February 1923 to April 1924, are here. Smith was a presence when she first arrived in the studio: "Downhearted Blues," her first record and already a hit for its composer, Alberta Hunter, would sell nearly 800,000 copies in its first six months of release. It's a riveting performance, but there's greater substance just a couple of months later in the bending notes of "Oh Daddy Blues." There are many majestic performances here, with Smith usually accompanied by just piano, played by songwriter Clarence Williams, her working accompanist Irving Johns, or Fletcher Henderson. When her accompaniments begin to expand, Don Redman makes an appearance on clarinet, but the great band recordings with Louis Armstrong remain in the future. The liner notes, by Smith's biographer, Chris Albertson, are excellent, filled with illuminating background 

Tracklist 1:

1. Down Hearted Blues 3:28

2. Gulf Coast Blues 3:07

3. Aggravatin' Papa 3:19

4. Beale Street mama 3:37

5. Baby Won't You Please Come Home 2:58

6. Oh Daddy Blues 3:07

7. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 3:29

8. Keeps On A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time) 3:09

9. Mama's Got The Blues 2:58

10. Outside Of That 3:30

11. Bleeding Hearted Blues 3:08

12. Lady Luck Blues 3:09

13. Yodling Blues 3:14

14. Midnight Blues 3:20

15. If You Don't, I Know Who Will 3:38

16. Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine 3:34

17. Jail-House Blues 3:16

18. St. Louis Gal 3:30

19. Sam Jones Blues 2:47

Tracklist 2:

1. Graveyard Dream Blues 2:46

2. Cemetery Blues 3:31

3. Far Away Blues 3:02

4. I'm Going Back to My Used to Be 2:56

5. Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time 3:12

6. My Sweetie Went Away 3:13

7. Any Woman's Blues 3:28

8. Chicago Bound Blues 3:18

9. Mistreating Daddy 3:19

10. Frosty Morning Blues 3:16

11. Haunted House Blues 3:31

12. Eavesdropper's Blues 3:13

13. Easy Come, Easy Go Blues 3:11

14. Sorrowful Blues 3:19

15. Pinchbacks - Take 'Em Away 3:17

16. Rocking Chair Blues 3:16

17. Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down 3:20

18. Boweavil Blues 2:54

19. Hateful Blues 3:09

BESSIE SMITH - The Complete Recordings Vol. 2 (1924-1925) 2CD (1991) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Bessie Smith, even on the evidence of her earliest recordings, well deserved the title "Empress of the Blues" for in the 1920s there was no one in her league for emotional intensity, honest blues feeling, and power. The second of five volumes (the first four are two-CD sets) finds her accompaniment improving rapidly with such sympathetic sidemen as trombonist Charlie Green, cornetist Joe Smith, and clarinetist Buster Bailey often helping her out. However, they are overshadowed by Louis Armstrong, whose two sessions with Smith (nine songs in all) fall into the time period of this second set; particularly classic are their versions of "St. Louis Blues," "Careless Love Blues," and "I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle." Other gems on this essential set include "Cake Walkin' Babies From Home," "The Yellow Dog Blues," and "At the Christmas Ball." by Scott Yanow

 Tracklist 1:

1. Frankie Blues 3:34

2. Moonshine Blues 3:19

3. Lou'siana Low-Down Blues 3:25

4. Mountain Top Blues 3:14

5. Work House Blues 3:23

6. House Rent Blues 3:08

7. Salt Water Blues 3:29

8. Rainy Weather Blues 3:38

9. Weeping Willow Blues 3:12

10. The Bye Bye Blues 3:20

11. Sing Sing Prison Blues 3:06

12. Follow the Deal on Down 3:18

13. Sinful Blues 3:11

14. Woman's Trouble Blues 3:07

15. Love Me Daddy Blues 3:16

16. Dying Gambler's Blues 3:00

17. The St. Louis Blues 3:12

18. Reckless Blues 3:05

19. Sobbin' Hearted Blues 3:01

Tracklist 2:

1. Cold In Hand Blues 3:15

2. You've Been a Good Ole Wagon 3:30

3. Cake Walkin' babies (From Home) 3:11

4. The Yellow Dog Blues 3:05

5. Soft Pedal Blues 3:21

6. Dixie Flyer Blues 3:11

7. Nashville Woman's Blues 3:45

8. Careless Love Blues 3:27

9. J.C. Holmes Blues 3:05

10. I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle 3:23

11. He's Gone Blues 3:11

12. Nobody's Blues But Mine 2:53

13. I Ain't Got Nobody 3:11

14. My Man Blues 3:32

15. New Gulf Coast Blues 3:23

16. Florida Bound Blues 3:15

17. At the Christmas Ball 3:26

18. I've Been Mistreated and I Don't Like It 2:55

BESSIE SMITH - The Complete Recordings Vol. 3 (1925-1928) 2CD (1992) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Listening to this collection, recorded from 1925 to 1928 as Bessie Smith's popularity grew, one only wishes that the recording technology of the day were a match for Smith's incredible voice. Naturally, this two-disc set contains many of her classic recordings, including "Back Water Blues," "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," "Lock and Key," "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," and "After You've Gone." This collection's also worth hearing for the backing musicians, who include Fletcher Henderson, James P. Johnson, Coleman Hawkins, and other luminaries of the day. To listen to Bessie Smith is to hear the blues unadulterated, and to understand what inspired so many contemporaries and later singers, from Billie Holiday to Janis Joplin. by Genevieve Williams

Tracklist 1:

1. Red Mountain Blues 3:13

2. Golden Rule Blues 3:05

3. Lonesome Desert Blues 3:26

4. Them "Has Been" Blues 03:33

5. Squeeze Me 2:53

6. What's The Matter Now? 2:46

7. I Want Every Bit Of It 2:38

8. Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town 3:21

9. The Gin House Blues 3:14

10. Money Blues 3:12

11. Baby Doll 3:01

12. Hard Driving Papa 2:59

13. Lost Your Head Blues 2:56

14. Hard Time Blues 3:14

15. Honey Man Blues 3:14

16. One And Two Blues 02:55

17. Young Woman's Blues 3:09

18. Preachin' The Blues 2:52

19. Back Water Blues 3:19

20. After You've Gone 2:57

21. Alexander's Ragtime Band 2:58

Personnel includes: Bessie Smith (vocals);
Lincoln M. Conaway (guitar);
Charlie Dixon (banjo);
Don Redman (clarinet, alto saxophone);
Buster Bailey, Coleman Hawkins (clarinet);
Shelton Hemphill, Joe Smith (cornet);
Fletcher Henderson, Clarence Williams, James P. Johnson, Porter Grainger (piano).
Recorded between 1925 and 1928.This is part of Legacy's Roots N' Blues series.Volume 3 of Columbia's five-box, ten-CD set finds Bessie Smith at the height of her career as a touring artist, recording consistently with high-caliber pianists like Fletcher Henderson and stride king James P. Johnson. While she was billed as "Empress of the Blues," Smith's accompanists handled her material in the small-group jazz style of the day, and her repertoire drew as much from tin pan alley, novelty and the vaudeville stage as it did from hokum and twelve-bar sources. There are many blues tunes here, but often the word was used as a marketing device rather than to connote a specific rhyme scheme or chord structure. On some of the later sides in Volume 3, the ensemble is expanded to include two horns--usually Joe Smith on cornet, with Jimmy Harrison or Charlie Green on trombone--and for one session, clarinet (a young Coleman Hawkins on "Alexander's Ragtime Band") and banjo. Chris Albertson's detailed history of Smith's life and career is continued in the accompanying booklet, which features numerous photographs of Smith and her colleagues and reproductions of various advertisements, studio logs, and 78 labels.

Tracklist 2:

1. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) 3:08

2. There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight 3:20

3. Trombone Cholly 3:12

4. Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair 3:23

5. Them's Graveyard Words 2:59

6. Hot Spring Blues 2:57

7. Sweet Mistreater 3:02

8. Lock And Key 2:59

9. Mean Old Bedbug Blues 3:14

10. A Good Man Is Hard To Find 3:02

11. Homeless Blues 3:01

12. Looking For My Man Blues 2:50

13. Dyin' By The Hour 3:00

14. Foolish Man Blues 2:55

15. Thinking Blues 3:10

16. Pickpocket Blues 2:44

17. I Used To Be Your Sweet Mama 2:51

18. I'd Rather Be Dead And Buried In My Grave 2:57

BESSIE SMITH - The Complete Recordings Vol. 4 (1928-1931) 2CD (1993) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

The fourth of five volumes (the first four are two-CD sets) that reissue all of Bessie Smith's recordings traces her career from a period when her popularity was at its height down to just six songs away from the halt of her recording career. But although her commercial fortunes might have slipped, Bessie Smith never declined and these later recordings are consistently powerful. The two-part "Empty Bed Blues" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (hers is the original version) are true classics and none of the other 40 songs (including the double-entendre "Kitchen Man") are throwaways. With strong accompaniment during some performances by trombonist Charlie Green, guitarist Eddie Lang, Clarence Williams's band and on ten songs (eight of which are duets) the masterful pianist James P. Johnson, this volume (as with the others) is quite essential.

Tracklist 1:

1. Standin' In The Rain Blues 2:56

2. It Won't Be You 2:49

3. Spider Man Blues 3:24

4. Empty Bed Blues (Part 1) 3:03

5. Empty Bed Blues (Part 2) 3:22

6. Put It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There) 3:00

7. Yes Indeed He Do! 3:17

8. Devil's Gonna Git You 3:12

9. You Ought To Be Ashamed 3:08

10. Washwoman's Blues 3:10

11. Slow And Easy Man 2:58

12. Poor Man's Blues 3:26

13. Please Help Me Get Him Out Of My Mind 2:58

14. Me And My Gin 2:52

15. I'm Wild About That Thing 2:50

16. You've Got To Give Me Some 2:44

17. Kitchen Man 2:58

18. I've Got What It Takes (But It Breaks My Heart To Give It Away) 3:11

19. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 3:00

20. Take It Right Back ('Cause I Don't Want It Here) 3:20

Tracklist 2:

1. He's Got Me Goin' 3:15

2. It Makes My Love Come Down 2:58

3. Wasted Life Blues 3:05

4. Dirty No-Gooder's Blues 3:00

5. Blue Spirit Blues 2:58

6. Worn Out Papa Blues 2:51

7. You Don't Understand 3:06

8. Don't Cry Baby 3:12

9. Keep It To Yourself 3:33

10. New Orleans Hop Scop Blues 2:59

11. See If I'll Care 3:26

12. Baby Have Pity On Me 3:21

13. On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) 2:57

14. Moan, You Moaners 3:13

15. Hustlin' Dan 3:33

16. Black Mountain Blues 3:11

17. In The House Blues 3:02

18. Long Old Road 3:28

19. Blue Blues 3:15

20. Shipwreck 3:20

These recordings reaching from the height of Bessie Smith's fame into her decline in popularity are required listening, covering the years 1928 through 1931. Not only was her voice stronger than ever, but her control over the material was topnotch; she balanced on the fine line between seductive charm and overt sexuality with apparent ease. Some of her best material ever appears on volume 4 of this 5-volume set, including "Standin' in the Rain Blues," "Empty Bed Blues" (speaking of overtness...), "Devil's Gonna Git You," "I'm Wild About That Thing," "Blue Spirit Blues"... but it's useless to even try to list favorites. Smith's voice is so rich and expressive despite the primitive recording technology of the day, one can only imagine what it must have been like to hear her live. And trombonist Charlie Green and pianist James P. Johnson are featured prominently here as well. by Genevieve Williams

BESSIE SMITH - The Complete Recordings, Vol. 5 : The Final Chapter (2CD) 1996 / FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Bessie Smith cut 160 sides for the Columbia and OKeh labels between 1923 and 1933, and the four previous two-CD/cassette box sets of her complete recordings released in the 1990s covered 154 of them, which introduces the question, what can a fifth two-CD/cassette box set contain in addition to the remaining six cuts? First, there are five previously unreleased alternate takes; second, there is the 15-minute low-fi soundtrack to the two-reel short St. Louis Blues, which constitutes the only film of Smith; and third, taking up all of the second CD/cassette, there are 72 minutes of interview tapes of Ruby Smith, Bessie Smith's niece, who traveled as part of her show. The box contains a "Parental Advisory -- Explicit Lyrics" warning because of the nature of Ruby Smith's reminiscences. You won't learn much about Bessie Smith's music from her niece's remarks, but you will learn a lot about her sexual preferences. by William Ruhlmann

The last two-CD set in this five-volume collection contains a lot of curiosities, and several pieces of required listening as well: "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl," "Do Your Duty," and "Gimme a Pigfoot" are all here. For curiosities, there's the St. Louis Blues soundtrack, from a film short that contains the only footage of Smith. The second CD consists entirely of interviews with Smith's niece, Ruby Smith, which, while of secondary interest to the music, make for fascinating listening. In a gradual, rambling way, Ruby constructs an image of her famous aunt that reveals additional facets of the Empress of the Blues. by Genevieve Williams

Tracklist 1:

1. Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl 2:50

2. Safety Mama 3:26

3. Do Your Duty 3:27

4. Gimme A Pigfoot 3:31

5. Take Me For A Buggy Ride 2:38

6. I'm Down In The Dumps 3:12

7. The Yellow Dog Blues 3:18

8. Soft Pedal Blues 3:22

9. Nashville Women's Blues 3:19

10. Careless Love Blues 3:30

11. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) 3:16

12. St. Louis Blues Soundtrack - Band Intro 0:45

13. St. Louis Blues Soundtrack - Crap Game 5:43

14. St. Louis Blues Soundtrack - St. Louis Blues 8:19

 Tracklist 2:

1. Bessie Smith & Ruby Smith - Bessie Disappears 4:50

2. Bessie Smith & Ruby Smith - Waldorf-Astoria Party 7:15

3. Bessie Smith & Ruby Smith - Bessie & Jack, I 2:52

4. Bessie Smith & Ruby Smith Bessie & Jack II - Bessie & The Ladies 10:23

5. Bessie Smith & Ruby Smith - Life On The Road, I 11:14

6. Bessie Smith & Ruby Smith - Life On The Road, II 14:02

7. Bessie Smith & Ruby Smith Bessie & Gertrude Saunders - Life On The Road, III 21:18

CD 1: tracks 1-6 - 20 November 1931 - 24 November 1933

CD 1: tracks 7-12 (Alternate Takes & Live) - 6 May 1925 - Late June 1929

CD 2: Ruby Smith Dialogue/Interview

MILDRED BAILEY - Sings "Me and the Blues" (1957-2000) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Mildred Bailey was quite popular for a time, being married to vibraphonist Red Norvo; the couple was referred to as "Mr. & Mrs. Swing." After their divorce, the swinging vocalist continued to record until diabetes sidelined her not long before her premature death in 1951. This Savoy CD compilation gathers recordings that she made with the Eddie Sauter Orchestra and the Ellis Larkins Orchestra, along with a small group date with a rhythm section led by Larkins. Bailey's sweet voice and clear enunciation give her a little girl quality at times. Her moving take of Mel Tormé's "Born to be Blue" and softly swinging "Lover, Come Back to Me" are among the highlights. The first CD issued in 1992 had a miserly playing time of just over 31 minutes, though a 2000 reissue added four more tracks. by Ken Dryden
Tracklist:
1 In Love In Vain 3:05
Written-By – Jerome Kern, Leo Robin
2 It's A Woman's Prerogative 2:56
Written-By – Harold Arlen - Johnny Mercer
3 I'll Close My Eyes 3:03
Written-By – Billy Reid, Buddy Kaye
4 Me And The Blues 3:05
Written-By – Harry Warren, Ted Koehler
5 At Sundown 3:20
Written-By – Walter Donaldson
6 Lover, Come Back To Me 3:10
Written-By – Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg
7 Born To Be Blue 2:51
Written-By – Mel Tormé, Robert Wells  
8 You Started Something 3:00
Written-By – E.Y. Harburg, Jay Gorney
9 Can't We Be Friends 3:05
Written-By – Kay Swift, Paul James 
10 All That Glitters Is Not Gold 3:07
Written-By – A. Asherman, E. Asherman, L. Kuhn
Bonus Tracks Not On Original LP Or CD Release
11 Almost Like Being In Love 3:05
Written-By – Frederick Loewe - Alan Lerner
12 The Heather On The Hill 3:11
Written-By – Frederick Loewe - Alan Lerner
13 Gone On That Guy 3:16
Written-By – Unknown Artist
14 Don't Worry 'Bout Strangers 3:00
Written-By – P. Moore
Credits:
Arranged By, Conductor [Directing] – Eddie Sauter (tracks: 1, 2, 10)
Bass – Al Hall (tracks: 1, 2, 10), Beverley Peer (tracks: 7 to 9, 13, 14)
Bass, Arranged By [Musical] – Bob Haggert (tracks: 3 to 6)
Clarinet – Hank D'Amico (tracks: 3 to 6)
Drums – Gordon "Specs" Powell (tracks: 1, 2, 10), Jimmy Crawford (tracks: 3 to 6)
Guitar – Barry Galbraith (tracks: 3 to 9, 13, 14)
Orchestra – The Ted Dales Orchestra (tracks: 1, 2, 10), The Ellis Larkins Orchestra (tracks: 3 to 6), Ellis Larkins Trio (tracks: 7 to 9, 13, 14), The Julian C. Work Orchestra (tracks: 11, 12)
Piano – Ellis Larkins (tracks: 1 to 10, 13, 14)
Trombone – Henderson Chambers (tracks: 3 to 6)
Trumpet – Irving "Mouse" Randolph (tracks: 3 to 6)

LUCILLE BOGAN (BESSIE JACKSON) - 1930-1933 Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1994) FLAC (tracks), lossless

The second volume of Lucille Bogan's complete recorded works as reissued during the 1990s by Document is packed with 22 recordings made in Chicago between March 1930 and July 1933, with piano accompaniment by Charles Avery and Walter Roland. These records were cut during the toughest years of the Great Depression, and Bogan sang very candidly about what she and thousands of other women did in order to survive. The life of a prostitute struggling to get by is boldly sketched in songs like "Tricks Ain't Walking No More" and "Struttin' My Stuff." On the "Sloppy Drunk Blues," a song also recorded by Scrapper Blackwell and Leroy Carr, Bogan bluntly states that she loves her moonshine whiskey better than she loves her man. The words to her "House Top Blues" describe the ravages of both alcoholism and domestic violence; "Mean Twister" bemoans the death and devastation left in the wake of a cyclone. "Alley Boogie" and the "New Muscle Shoals Blues," on the other hand, are more like earthy honest celebrations of free love, unashamed and unfettered by socially imposed morality. Some of these recordings sound exactly like a 78 rpm platter spinning on a wind-up phonograph, the steel needle riding the groove through to the end of the song. Other editions of reissued recordings by this artist employed noise reduction technology; Document's approach in 1994 was to present the music as it sounds in its original format. arwulf arwulf 
Tracklist
1 They Ain't Walking No More 3:05
2 Dirty Treatin' Blues 2:52
3 Sloppy Drunk Blues 3:14
4 Alley Boogie 3:03
5 Crawlin' Lizard Blues 3:02
6 Struttin' My Stuff 2:47
7 Black Angel Blues 3:04
8 Tricks Ain't Walking No More 3:14
9 Red Cross Man 3:08
10 T & N O Blues 2:55
11 My Baby Come Back 2:43
12 Forty-Two Hundred Blues 2:41
13 Walkin' Blues 2:53
14 House Top Blues 2:51
15 Baking Powder Blues 2:56
16 Groceries On The Shelf 2:55
17 Seaboard Blues 2:47
18 Roll And Rattler 2:31
19 Superstitious Blues (Hooch House Blues) 2:49
20 Mean Twister 2:54
21 Troubled Mind 2:46
22 New Muscle Shoals Blues 2:48
Credits
Piano – Charles Avery (tracks: 1 to 4), Unknown Artist (tracks: 5 to 8), Walter Roland (tracks: 9 to 22)
Piano [Poss.] – Charles Avery (tracks: 5 to 8)
Speech – Walter Roland (tracks: 12, 18)
Vocals – Lucille Bogan

LUCILLE BOGAN (BESSIE JACKSON) - 1934-1935 Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 (1994) FLAC (tracks), lossless

The third and final volume of Lucille Bogan's complete works as presented by Document in 1994 allows the listener to savor 23 recordings made between July 1934 and March 1935, with pianist Walter Roland, and guitarists Bob Campbell and Josh White. It was during this period that Bogan chose to record under the name of Bessie Jackson. "You Got to Die Some Day" has a familiar ring to it, and might well be the source for a line in Eddie Durham and Jimmy Rushing's "Sent for You Yesterday," a major hit for Count Basie and other big-band leaders during the late 1930s. "I Hate That Train Called the M. and O." is one of several Bogan songs inspired by locomotives. Because this particular train separated her from the man that she loved, the emotions expressed here are undiluted and powerfully direct. "Pig Iron Sally," like the train songs rooted in the industrialized territory where she lived and worked, is the testimony of a woman who protects herself by claiming to be filled with Evil. The underlying message is as clear and concise as a crossbow: "Do Not Mess with Me." In many ways, the blues is often used like a diary. Whenever she expressed herself in front of a recording microphone, this singer reflected on who she was, the kind of a world she lived in, and the sort of people who inhabited it. "B.D. Woman's Blues" is about "Bull Dykes"; women who exclusively prefer the company of other women and display what are considered to be masculine characteristics. "Barbecue Bess" is a lusty conflation of flesh (sexual pleasures) and meat (carnivorous dining), both delectable topics for insatiable appetites. "Shave 'Em Dry" exists here in three versions. The first, a cover of a song by Ma Rainey, is a straightforward blues garnished with traditional references to interpersonal relationships and straight-edged razor blades. The two unissued takes could never have been put before the public in the '30s because of the outrageously pornographic lyrics, but were most likely quite popular on the private party circuit. Stash Records made an obscene take available to an appreciative new generation in 1976 on their Copulatin' Blues collection. The sexual imagery is every bit as extreme as the smuttiest outbursts of Jelly Roll Morton's 1938 Library of Congress sessions. After bragging about nipples as stiff as thumbs and seemingly Olympic bouts of frenzied copulation, Bogan (or Bessie Jackson, as she was then called) conjures up a weird architectural edifice as the man's erect penis poses as a church steeple and his sphincter becomes the portal, through which "...the crabs walks in like people!" After describing this bizarre hallucination, which suggests a passage from either the electroshock journals of Antonin Artaud or Lautreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, she busts out laughing and has to struggle to contain herself in order to finish her wild performance. After 1935, Lucille Bogan stopped making records and moved back to Birmingham, AL, where she managed her son's band, known as Bogan's Birmingham Rhythm Busters. This group, which included trumpeter Martin Barnett, saxophonist Lee Golden, pianist Robert McCoy, and washboard percussionist Clarence Curly, cut two sides for Vocalion in March of 1937. It's a pity that Document didn't dig these up and include them as a footnote at the end of this collection. Lucille Bogan eventually moved to Los Angeles where she died a victim of coronary sclerosis in 1948. Since the reissue of most of her works by Document in 1994, her name and voice have become familiar to small numbers of dedicated classic blues lovers worldwide. arwulf arwulf  
Tracklist
1 You Got to Die Some Day 2:42
Lucille Bogan
2 Lonesome Midnight Blues 2:34
Lucille Bogan
3 Boogan Ways Blues 2:57
Lucille Bogan
4 My Man Is Boogan Me 2:51
5 Pig Iron Sally 3:00
Lucille Bogan
6 I Hate That Train Called the M. and O. 3:10
7 Drinking Blues 2:58
Lucille Bogan
8 Tired as I Can Be 2:39
Lucille Bogan
9 Sweet Man, Sweet Man 3:04
10 Reckless Woman 2:54
Lucille Bogan
11 Down in Boogie Alley 2:53
12 Changed Ways Blues 2:57
13 Bo-Easy Blues 3:02
14 That's What My Baby Likes 3:02
15 Shave 'Em Dry 2:50
Lucille Bogan / Traditional
16 Shave 'Em Dry 3:22
Lucille Bogan / Traditional
17 Shave 'Em Dry 3:18
Lucille Bogan / Traditional
18 Barbecue Bess 2:42
Lucille Bogan
19 B.D. Woman's Blues 3:01
Lucille Bogan
20 Jump Steady Daddy 2:50
Lucille Bogan
21 Man Stealer Blues 3:02
Lucille Bogan
22 Stew Meat Blues 2:57
Lucille Bogan
23 Skin Game Blues 2:56
Lucille Bogan
Credits
Guitar – Walter Roland (tracks: 6, 8)
Vocals – Lucille Bogan
Guitar [Prob.] – Bob Campbell (tracks: 6, 8), Josh White (tracks: 21)
Piano – Walter Roland (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9 to 23 )
Speech – Walter Roland (tracks: 5)