Artist	Song
Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong & The Louis Armstrong Orchestra	St. Louis Blues
from The Essential Bessie Smith (1997)
Bessie Smith	Need a Little Sugar In My Bowl
from Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith (2003)
Bessie Smith	'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
from The Essential Bessie Smith (1997)
Bessie Smith	Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
from The Essential Bessie Smith (1997)
Bessie Smith	Down Hearted Blues
from Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith (2003)
Bessie Smith	A Good Man Is Hard to Find
from The Essential Bessie Smith (1997)
Bessie Smith	Me and My Gin
from Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith (2003)
Bessie Smith	Sorrowful Blues
from The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1 (1991)
Bessie Smith	Alexander's Ragtime Band
from The Essential Bessie Smith (1997)
Bessie Smith	Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
from Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 (1992)
Bessie Smith	Jail-House Blues
from The Essential Bessie Smith (1997)
Bessie Smith	Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
from Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith (2003)
Bessie Smith	There'll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight
from Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 (1992)
Bessie Smith	Moan, You Moaners
from The Essential Bessie Smith (1997)
Bessie Smith	Backwater Blues
from Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith (2003)

Comment:

Big and brash, Bessie Smith tore through a song like nobody's business. In the '20s, she lived a hard life full of booze and sex and love gone wrong — and sang about all of it with a full-throated sassiness that made her the most popular singer of the decade and earned her the nickname "Empress of the Blues."

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