Formats and Editions
1. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
2. Gin House Blues
3. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
4. T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
5. I Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
6. After You've Gone
7. Careless Love Blues
8. Preachin' the Blues
9. Black Mountain Blues 1
10. Sinful Blues 1
11. Homeless Blues 1
12. Downhearted Blues 1
13. Any Woman's Blues 1
14. He's Gone Blues 1
15. Graveyard Dream Blues 1
16. Lady Luck Blues 1
17. The Bye Bye Blues 1
18. House Rent Blues 1
19. Woman's Trouble Blues 2
20. Work House Blues 2
21. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle 2
22. Love Me Daddy Blues 2
23. St Louis Blues 2
24. Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer) 2
25. Hard Driving Papa 2
26. Me and My Gin 2
27. Dyin' By the Hour 2
28. I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave 2
29. Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Two Time Me) 3
30. Lock and Key 3
31. On Revival Day 3
32. Looking for My Man Blues 3
33. There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight 3
34. Back Water Blues 3
35. Young Woman's Blues 3
36. A Good Man Is Hard to Find 3
37. Baby Won't You Please Come Home 3
38. Golden Rule Blues 3
39. What's the Matter Now 4
40. Honeyman Blues 4
41. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) 4
42. Foolish Man Blues 4
43. Kitchen Man 4
44. Gulf Coast Blues 4
45. Foolish Man Blues 4
46. Chicago Bound Blues 4
47. Alexander's Ragtime Band 4
48. Sing Sing Prison Blues
More Info:
Decades of blues and jazz vocalists sang in the shadow of the Empress, whose powerhouse voice still packs a wallop nearly 90 years later. Here are more than two hours of key cuts: her hits Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; T'ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do, and Aggravatin' Papa plus Gin House Blues; Downhearted Blues; Dyin' by the Hour; Lock and Key; Sinful Blues, and more!