Backwater Blues

The Best of Bessie Smith

3 MINUTES AND 18 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

Down Hearted Blues

03:25

2

Baby Won't You Please Come Home

02:56

3

'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do

03:27

4

Work House Blues

03:21

5

St. Louis Blues

03:10

6

You've Been a Good Old Wagon

03:28

7

03:25

8

Young Woman's Blues

03:08

9

Preachin' the Blues

02:51

10

Backwater Blues

03:18

11

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

03:19

12

Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair

03:22

13

Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1

03:01

14

Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2

03:20

15

02:50

16

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

02:57

17

Black Mountain Blues

03:08

18

03:26

19

Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl

02:48

20

Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer

03:29

The Best of Bessie Smith

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Backwater Blues

Originally released 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment