Poet Of The Blues

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Total Tracks: 25   Total Length: 66:24

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Cool Blues

soultrain

Charles Brown fans will love this. Laid-back, after-hours blues with jazzy piano & horn backing. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" is the best-known tune, but there's no duds on this CD. If that ain't enough, he's one of the greatest-ever blues songwriters.

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The insightful songwriting skills of this West Coaster were matched by his wry, plaintive vocal delivery (Mayfield was usually his own best interpreter). The 25 sides here date from his hit-laden 1950-1954 stay at Art Rupe’s Specialty logo and include his universal lament “Please Send Me Someone to Love,” and the resolutely downbeat “Strange Things Happening” and “Lost Love,” and an ironic “The River’s Invitation.” Saxman Maxwell Davis led the horn-powered combos providing sympathetic support behind Mayfield. – Bill Dahl