Backwater Blues

The Essential Bessie Smith

3 MINUTES AND 19 SECONDS • JAN 01 1927

Lyrics

When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night

When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night

Then trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at night

I woke up this m...

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Album Tracklist

1

Aggravatin' Papa

03:19

2

Baby Won't You Please Come Home

02:57

3

'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do

03:28

4

Jail-House Blues

03:15

5

Graveyard Dream Blues

02:45

6

Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down

03:20

7

02:53

8

Weeping Willow Blues

03:11

9

Dying Gambler's Blues

02:59

10

St. Louis Blues

03:12

11

You've Been a Good Old Wagon

03:29

12

Cake Walkin' Babies from Home

03:11

13

Careless Love Blues (take 1)

03:27

14

I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle

03:23

15

At the Christmas Ball (78rpm Version)

03:26

16

Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town (78rpm Version)

03:21

17

Backwater Blues

03:19

18

After You've Gone

02:56

19

Alexander's Ragtime Band

03:01

20

There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

03:20

21

Trombone Cholly

03:12

22

Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair

03:23

23

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

03:00

24

Dyin' by the Hour

03:00

25

02:51

26

Kitchen Man (78 rpm Version)

02:57

27

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (78rpm Version)

02:58

28

On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)

02:57

29

Moan, You Moaners

03:13

30

Black Mountain Blues

03:09

31

Shipwreck Blues

03:22

32

Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl

02:49

33

03:26

34

Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer

03:31

35

Take Me for a Buggy Ride

02:37

36

Down in the Dumps

03:09

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Backwater Blues

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