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- Date Released: January 1, 1959
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Classic Jazz, Jazz/Blues, Jazz Vocal
- Label: Fantasy / Prestige
Late '50s sides too cool for school.
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We Say...
Like a lot of people, I got turned on to nonpareil blues-jazzman Mose Allison by the Who — turns out the young Pete Townshend, back when he was a pretentious art student, rightly considered Mose Allison the height of urbane cool and carried the torch ever since. So the Who made Allison's "Young Man Blues" one of the highlights of the galvanic Live at Leeds, and the somewhat incongruous inclusion of Sonny Boy Williamson's obscure "Eyesight to the Blind" on Tommy must have stemmed from the fact that Allison had recorded it. On "Young Man Blues," the Who just made obvious what Allison had so suavely left to the imagination: a perennial rage. Even "I Can See for Miles" seems informed by Allison's take on Willie Dixon's "Seventh Son," with its omniscient, ominous character. Like the Who, Allison and his combo are a power trio, but they rock hard with the most minimal and unlikely tools: piano, standup bass, brushed drums, and Allison's limited but deftly deployed tenor vocals. These late '50s sides are too cool for school. Go, cat, go.
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| 01. |  |
The Seventh Son |
2:40 |
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| 02. | |
Eyesight to the Blind |
1:43 |
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| 03. | |
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me |
3:13 |
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| 04. | |
Lost Mind |
3:33 |
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| 05. | |
I've Got a Right to Cry |
2:51 |
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| 06. | |
Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand |
3:17 |
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| 07. | |
Parchman Farm |
3:20 |
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| 08. | |
If You Live |
2:31 |
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| 09. | |
Don't Get Around Much Anymore |
2:49 |
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| 10. | |
One Room For Country Shack |
3:03 |
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| 11. | |
I Hadn't Anyone Till You |
2:34 |
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| 12. | |
Young Man's Blues |
1:27 |
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| 13. | |
That's Alright |
2:28 |
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| 14. | |
Blueberry Hill |
2:58 |
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| 15. | |
Trouble in Mind |
3:15 |
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| 16. | |
Creek Bank |
4:34 |
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16 Total Tracks, 46:16 Total Length
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