Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out / Take It Right Back ('Cause I Don't Want It Here)

by Bessie Smith

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out / Take It Right Back ('Cause I Don't Want It Here) cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: September 1929
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:11:47
  • Community rating: 4.19/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Arriving mere weeks before the Wall Street Crash, this vaudeville blues track provided an eerily prophetic commentary on sudden poverty. The forceful, seasoned vocal performance masterfully conveys the melancholic reality of fleeting wealth and conditional friendships.

Genres

Descriptors: alcohol, acoustic, melodic, money

Tracklist

  1. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:58)
  2. A Good Man Is Hard To Find (2:59)
  3. Kitchen Man (2:56)
  4. Summertime (2:42)
  5. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home (2:55)
  6. Hot Springs Blues (2:54)
  7. Empty Bed Blues (6:24)
  8. Lonesome Desert Blues (3:25)
  9. Me And My Gin (2:52)
  10. Lady Luck Blues (3:07)
  11. Alexander's Ragtime Band (2:58)
  12. Aggravatin' Papa (3:16)
  13. After You've Gone (2:56)
  14. Weeping Willow Blues (3:09)
  15. Trombone Cholly (3:09)
  16. Down Hearted Blues (3:25)
  17. St. Louis Blues (3:10)
  18. Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair (3:21)
  19. Blue, Blue (3:11)
  20. Back Water Blues (3:17)
  21. Cake Walking Babies From Home (3:11)
  22. Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town (3:19)

Credits

  • Bessie Smith - primary artist, vocals
  • Garvin Bushell - alto saxophone [uncredited]
  • Ed Allen - cornet [uncredited]
  • Clarence Williams - piano [uncredited], Piano
  • Greely Walton - tenor saxophone [uncredited]
  • Cyrus St. Clair - tuba [uncredited]
  • Jimmy Cox - written-by
  • Harold Gray - written-by

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