Empty Bed Blues

Empty Bed Blues

Empty Bed Blues

Track Listings
 
1. Empty Bed Blues
2. Mother on That Train
3. Bottle Up and Go
4. Backwater Blues
5. Baby Baby Blues
6. Lord Have Mercy
7. Home in That Rock
8. Paul and Silas
9. His Eye Is on the Sparrow
10. That Suits Me

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Reissue from the '60s folk revival, led by Elektra Records, this should help reestablished a place in music history for this remarkable musician who has received relatively scant attention in blues circles over the past decades. 10 tracks. Sepiatone. 2003.

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Empty Bed Blues
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Kitchen MAN
  • A generous selection of classic blues.
 Empty Bed Blues
Bessie Smith
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001HJX
Release Date: 1996-10-15

Tracks:

  1. Downhearted Blues
  2. Keep On A Rainin'
  3. St. Louis Blues
  4. Cold In Hand Blues
  5. Cake Walkin' Babies
  6. The Yellow Dog Blues
  7. At The Christmas Ball
  8. Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
  9. The Gin House Blues
  10. Baby Doll
  11. Lost Your Head Blues
  12. Backwater Blues
  13. Trombone Cholly
  14. Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
  15. Dyin' By The Hour
  16. Empty Bed Blues
  17. Put It Right Here
  18. I'm Wild About That Thing
  19. Kitchen Man
  20. Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out
  21. New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
  22. Do Your Duty
  23. Gimme A Pig Foot And A Bottle Of Beer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Kitchen MAN.......2007-04-10

Bought the CD for two reasons: (1)I was teaching a class about jazz to Seniors who are members of the Veritas Society at Bellarmine University. Course title: Explorations in Jazz, and learning about the Blues is a major part of such a course. (2) I wanted to replace a lost tape of Bessie where she sang "Kitchen Man" a song my wife enjoys -- as did the class. The lyrics are cool. The CD provides a wide range of experiencing the Blues through the original vocal interpretations of Bessie Smith. Rick E.

5 out of 5 stars A generous selection of classic blues........2001-03-18

Featuring in the history of North American music, and flourishing between the two world wars was the Negroid song known as the "blues". Its origin is usually attributed to W C Handy. A "blues" song has its own tonality, harmony, duple time and other requisite features, and its singer usually laments, with little restriction on bawdy detail, the absence or loss of a lover. Ma Rainey was an early and influential exponent, and also a friend and teacher of Bessie Smith (1895-1937). We, in our turn, may lament the fact that Bessie Smith's life was short, tempestuous and tragic, but we can be grateful for at least two things. Firstly, she received the advantage of superb technical quality recording during the years 1925 to 1933. Secondly, she attracted or was accorded some of the best jazz musicians of her day to participate in her recordings - Charlie Green trombone, Fletcher Henderson, piano, Eddie Lang, guitar, Jack Teagarden trombone, etc.

A generous selection of her blues recordings is offered in excellent reproduction on this "Living Era" CD. Here are some of the classic, narrative blues, the more "commercial" items, and several in which she had a hand in writing the lyrics. You'll find characteristic "double entendre" in the famous six minute "Empty Bed Blues", in which Bessie laments the absence from her bed of her current lover, a miner who is so skilled and tireless at plumbing the depths, drilling etc.
Empty Bed Blues
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Empty Bed Blues
    Josh White
    Manufacturer: Sepia Tone
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0000996H9
    Release Date: 2003-07-01

    Tracks:

    1. Empty Bed Blues
    2. Mother on That Train
    3. Bottle Up and Go
    4. Backwater Blues
    5. Baby Baby Blues
    6. Lord Have Mercy
    7. Home in That Rock
    8. Paul and Silas
    9. His Eye Is on the Sparrow
    10. That Suits Me

    Album Description

    Reissue from the '60s folk revival, led by Elektra Records, this should help reestablished a place in music history for this remarkable musician who has received relatively scant attention in blues circles over the past decades. 10 tracks. Sepiatone. 2003.
    Empty Bed Blues
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Empty Bed Blues
      Bessie Smith
      Manufacturer: Golden Stars
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Blues | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B000LKARFM
      Release Date: 2006-12-25

      Tracks:

      1. Down Hearted Blues
      2. Gulf Coast Blues
      3. Baby, Won't You [Lease Come Home
      4. 'tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
      5. Jailhouse Blues
      6. Graveyard Dream Blues
      7. Sweetie Went Away
      8. Any Woman's Blues
      9. Ticket Agent
      10. Ease Your Window Down
      11. Boweavil Blues
      12. Weeping Willow Blues
      13. St. Louis Blues
      14. Reckless Blues
      15. You've Been A Good Old Wagon
      16. Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home)
      17. Yellow Dog Blues
      18. Careless Love Blues
      19. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
      20. I Ain't Got Nobody
      21. Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
      22. Lost Your Head Blues
      23. Back Water Blues
      24. After You've Gone
      25. Alexander's Ragtime Band
      26. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
      27. Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
      28. Mean Old Bedbug Blues
      29. Good Man Is Hard To Find
      30. Dyin' By The Hour
      31. Empty Bed Blues (Part 1)
      32. Empty Bed Blues (Part 2)
      33. Poor Man's Blues
      34. Me And My Gin
      35. Kitchen Man
      36. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
      37. On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)
      38. Black Mountains Blues
      39. Shipwreck Blues
      40. Shipwreck Blues
      41. Need A Little Suar In My Blues
      42. Do Your Duty
      43. Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)
      44. Take Me For A Buggy Ride
      Empty Bed Blues: Best of the Good Time Mommas
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        		Empty Bed Blues: Best of the Good Time Mommas
        Various Artists
        Manufacturer: Bmg
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B00000857R
        Release Date: 1998-02-05

        Tracks:

        1. If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It) - Barrell House Annie
        2. Ice Man (Come on Up) - Memphis Minnie
        3. Take Me for a Buggy Ride - Bessie Smith
        4. Sam-The Hot Dog Man - Lil Johnson
        5. He's Just My Size - Lillie Mae Kirkman
        6. My Castle's Rockin' - Alberta Hunter
        7. My Butcher Man - Georgia White
        8. My Handy Man - Ethel Waters
        9. Keep on Eatin' - Memphis Minnie
        10. Shave 'Em Dry, No. 2 - Lucille Bogan
        11. Send Me a Man - Alberta Hunter
        12. Walking the Street - Georgia White
        13. In the Racket - Billie Pierce
        14. Empty Bed Blues, Pts. 1-2 - Bessie Smith
        15. I've Got What It Takes - Virginia Liston
        16. Or Leave Me Alone - Lil Armstrong
        17. Furniture Man Blues, Pt. 2 - Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey
        18. Get 'Em from the Peanut Man (The New Hot Nuts) - Lil Johnson
        19. Blues Ain't Nothin' But...? - Georgia White
        20. Can't Be Bothered With No Sheik - Rosa Henderson
        21. Kitchen Man - Bessie Smith
        22. One Hour Mama - Ida Cox
        23. Good Time Mama Blues - Martha Copeland
        24. For Sale (Hannah Johnson's Big Jack Ass) - Clara Smith
        25. You've Been a Good Ole Wagon - Bessie Smith

        Album Details

        Tracks Include: Bessie Smith-You@ve Been A Good Ole Wagon, Lucille Bogan-Shave Em@dry #2, Georgia White-My Butcher Man, Alberta Hunter-Send Me A Man, Virgina Liston-I@ve Got What It Takes & More.

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