The Essential

Original Release Date:  October 1, 2002

Track Listing

• 1. Crazy Blues
• 2. Don't Care Blues
• 3. Frankie Blues
• 4. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll
• 5. Jazzbo Ball
• 6. Don't Mess with Me
• 7. U Need Some Lovin' Blues
• 8. Do It, Mr. So-and-So
• 9. Wabash Blues
• 10. Kansas City Man Blues
• 11. Get Hot
• 12. Got to Cool My Doggies Now
• 13. You Can Have Him, I Don't Want Him, Didn't Love Him Anyhow Blues
• 14. Down Home Blues
• 15. Arkansas Blues (A Down Home Chant)
• 16. My Sportin' Man
• 17. The Lure of the South
• 18. Golfing Papa
• 19. Gon' Crazy with the Blues
• 20. What Have You Done to Make Me Feel This Way
• 21. New Orleans
• 22. My Mammy's Blues
• 23. Sweet Virginia Blues
• 24. Mamie Smith Blues
• 25. Alabama Blues
• 26. Jenny's Ball
• 27. Don't You Advertise Your Man
• 28. Mean Man
• 29. The Darktown Flappers Ball
• 30. Lady Luck Blues
• 31. What You Need Is Me
• 32. Sweet Man O' Mine
• 33. Lord! Lord!
• 34. Keep a Song in Your Soul
• 35. Harlem Blues
• 36. I Once Was Yours I'm Somebody Else's Now

Credits

• Jimmy Reed: Composer
• Mamie Smith: Composer
• James P. Johnson: Composer
• Fats Waller: Composer
• Perry Bradford: Composer
• Porter Grainger: Composer
• Alexander Hill: Composer
• J.C. Johnson: Composer
• Chris Osborne: Illustrations
• Clarence Williams: Composer
• Dave Ringle: Composer
• E.A. Smith: Executive Producer
• Modesty Marie Sablan: Design
• Fred Meinken: Composer