Blues Queen

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Blues Queen 2007 comprehensive collection covering Bessie's whole career. Bessie overcame tremendous odds to become the Empress of the Blues, the best blues singer of her era, and the source of numerous legends. Above all, Bessie had a powerful and beautiful voice, and a strong personality which she imposed on every tune she chose to sing. Some of the tunes from her repertoire were composed by or for her, while she selected others from the vaudeville shows she often performed in. Most of the songs were Blues about lost lovers and personal problems, which in her voice sounded sincere and moving. This 24 track CD covers her whole career, beginning in her first session and ending in her last. It also includes all the masters she recorded backed by the great Louis Armstrong in 1925 and many other jewels. Definitive.

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Tracks
1Downhearted Blues
2Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
3My Sweetie Went Away
4Weeping Willow Blues
5St. Louis Blues
6Reckless Blues
7Sobbin' Hearted Blues
8Cold in Hand Blues
9You'd Been a Good Ole Wagon
10Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home)
11Yellow Dog Blues
12Nashville Woman's Blues
13Careless Love Blues
14J.C. Holmes Blues
15I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle
16Young Woman's Blues
17Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
18Mean Old Bedbug Blues
19Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1
20Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2
21Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
22Black Mountain Blues
23Do Your Duty
24Gimme a Pigfoot



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