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Released on Columbia, also Chop Suey! (System of a Down), Toxicity (System of a Down) and Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Part of The Complete Recordings, Volume 1, also Any Woman’s Blues, Boweavil Blues and Gulf Coast Blues
Written by Clarence Williams, also My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It (Hank Williams), I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl (Nina Simone) and Baby Won’t You Please Come Home (Ray Charles)
Released on Legacy, also September (Earth, Wind & Fire), Sexy M.F. (Prince) and Can You Feel It (The Jacksons)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Clarence Williams wrote 23 songs on fono
Bessie Smith wrote 10 songs on fono
Clarence Williams’s most frequent co-writer is Spencer Williams (4 songs together)
Clarence Williams first appears on fono in 1925, 66 years before this song
Credits
All 7 credits
- Written by
- Bessie Smith and Clarence Williams
- Performed by
- Bessie Smith and Irving Johns
- Written by
- Bessie Smith and Clarence Williams
- Performed by
- Bessie Smith and Irving Johns
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Clarence Williams
Same label: Columbia
Same release: The Complete Recordings, Volume 1
Same label: Legacy
Same writer: Clarence Williams
Same label: Columbia
Same release: The Complete Recordings, Volume 1
Same label: Legacy
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz Jail‐House Blues was performed by Bessie Smith
Jail‐House Blues was performed by Bessie Smith
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz Jail‐House Blues was performed by Irving Johns
Jail‐House Blues was performed by Irving Johns
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
3MusicBrainz Jail‐House Blues was written by Bessie Smith
Jail‐House Blues was written by Bessie Smith
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz Jail‐House Blues was written by Clarence Williams
Jail‐House Blues was written by Clarence Williams
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz Jail‐House Blues is part of the release The Complete Recordings, Volume 1
Jail‐House Blues is part of the release The Complete Recordings, Volume 1
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
6MusicBrainz Columbia is the label of the song Jail‐House Blues
Columbia is the label of the song Jail‐House Blues
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
7MusicBrainz Legacy is the label of the song Jail‐House Blues
Legacy is the label of the song Jail‐House Blues
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
8MusicBrainz Jail‐House Blues was released on 1991