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Thinking Blues

by Bessie Smith · from The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3

1992Blues3:08Track 15

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Review by lena★★★½Sample

Solid, but I keep skipping “Thinking Blues”. Sorry Bessie Smith.

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Review by Jules Archer★★★★½Sample

Took me three listens. By the third, “Thinking Blues” had moved in and started paying rent.

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Disc 1
1
Red Mountain Blues
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3:11
2
Golden Rule Blues
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3:03
3
Lonesome Desert Blues
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3:25
4
Them "Has Been" Blues
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3:31
5
Squeeze Me
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2:52
6
What's the Matter Now
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2:45
7
I Want Every Bit of It
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8
Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town
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3:19
9
The Gin House Blues
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3:12
10
Money Blues
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3:10
11
Baby Doll
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12
Hard Driving Papa
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13
Lost Your Head Blues
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14
Hard Time Blues
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15
Honey Man Blues
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16
One and Two Blues
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17
Young Woman's Blues
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18
Preachin' the Blues
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19
Backwater Blues
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After You've Gone
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21
Alexander's Ragtime Band
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Disc 2
1
Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
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2
There'll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight
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3
Trombone Cholly
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Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
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Them's Graveyard Words
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Hot Springs Blues
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7
Sweet Mistreater
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8
Lock and Key
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9
Mean Old Bedbug Blues
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10
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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11
Homeless Blues
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2:58
12
Looking for My Man Blues
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2:48
13
Dyin' By the Hour
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2:58
14
Foolish Man Blues
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15
Thinking Blues
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3:08
16
Pickpocket Blues
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2:42
17
I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama
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I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried In My Grave
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