Mose Allison

Mose Allison - Allison Wonderland




DISC 1:

1. Back Country Suite: Blues (Young Man's Blues)
2. Lost Mind
3. Parchman Farm
4. If You Live
5. The Seventh Son
6. Eyesight to the Blind
7. Baby, Please Don't Go
8. Fool's Paradise
9. V-8 Ford Blues
10. Ask Me Nice
11. Hey, Good Lookin'
12. Back on the Corner
13. Your Mind Is on Vacation
14. Meet Me at No Special Place
15. I Don't Worry About a Thing
16. I Ain't Got Nothing But the Blues
17. Swingin' Machine
18. Stop This World
19. I'm Not Talking
20. I'm the Wild Man
21. Your Red Wagon
22. Foolkiller
23. Wild Man on the Loose
24. You Can Count on Me to Do My Part
25. Smashed - (live)
26. I Love the Life I Live - (live)
27. That's Alright - (live)
28. Fool's Paradise - (live)

DISC 2:


1. If You're Goin' to the City
2. Everybody Cryin' Mercy
3. Feel So Good
4. Your Molecular Structure
5. Monsters of the ID
6. Hello There, Universe
7. I Don't Want Much
8. How Much Truth
9. Western Man
10. I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So
11. The Tennessee Waltz
12. Ever Since the World Ended
13. Top Forty
14. Josephine
15. Gettin' There
16. Ever Since I Stole the Blues
17. You Call It Joggin'
18. Big Brother
19. The Gettin' Paid Waltz



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Mose Allison – Sings the 7th Son (1959)



Mose John Allison Jr. was born in 1927 in Tippo, Mississippi, a cotton town in the Mississippi delta. By the time Mose was in grade school he was already composing boogie woogie tunes on the piano. His father, a piano stride player himself, encouraged the young Mose in his playing but also taught him the meaning of “work on the farm.” Mose plowed cotton with a mule and said once that he is probably one of the few remaining living bluesman who can honestly make that claim. He grew up where “The blues was in the air.” While still in his teens Mose was sitting in with R and B bands on Memphis’s famed musical mecca Beale Street. One of those bands was led by another teenage bluesman, Beale Street Boy, better known as B. B. King. It was a full decade before SUN Records discovery of Elvis Presley. In the 1940’s in the deep south it was not yet socially acceptable for races to mix in public places. When it comes to music Mose says, “I just followed my ears.”

In 1956 Mose migrated to New York where the jazz scene was taking off. He staked out an artistic and musical niche that was both respected and unique. Today, many in the industry view Mose as a musician’s musician, a singer’s singer and a songwriter’s songwriter. Mose is still playing over 150 dates a year and considers his 40 years on the road performing as “on the job training.” In the states Mose has a loyal following but, it was in England during the 1960’s where Mose got the attention of many soon to be British Invaders. The Yardbirds, The Who, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and others would soon be covering his songs. Someone said to Mose once, “You were a social critic before Dylan; you were satirical long before Newman; you were rude long before Jagger; why aren’t you a big star?” Mose’s answer to that was, “Just Lucky, I guess.” Mose’s popularity in the states has been on a slow and steady rise. As the man himself wrote, “If you live, your time will come”. Perhaps Mose’s time has finally come.

In a twenty month period covering 1994-5, a biography on Mose entitled, One Man’s Blues, has been published in the UK, a studio CD on Blue Note was released entitled, The Earth Wants You, a live set from the seventies was released on indie CD entitled, Pure Mose, Rhino Records released a two CD anthology entitled, Allison Wonderland and finally a three CD boxed set from Sony, High Jinks! Trilogy. Certainly it is wonderful time to be a Mose fan.


TrackList:

01. Seventh Son (Willie Dixon) 2:35
02. Eyesight To The Blind (Sonny Boy Williamson) 1:40
03. Do Nothing To You Hear From Me (Duke Ellington/Bob Russ) 3:08
04. Lost Mind (Percy Mayfield) 3:29
05. I Got A Right To Cry (Joe Liggins) 2:45
06. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (Ray Charles) 3:11
07. Parchman Farm (Mose Allison) 3:11
08. If You Live (Mose Allison) 2:22
09. Don’t Get Around Much Any More (Duke Ellington/Bob Russell) 2:45
10. One Room Country Shack (Mercy Dee Walton) 2:58
11. I Hadn’t Anyone Till You (Ray Noble) 2:30
12. Young Man (Mose Allison) 1:23
13. That’s All Right (Jimmy Rogers) 2:23

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LINEUP:
Mose Allison (Piano and Vocals)
Addison Farmer (Double Bass) – 1-9,11,13
Taylor La Fargue (Double Bass) – 10,12
Frank Isola (Drums) – 10,12
Ronnie Free (Drums) – 1-3,5,8,13
Nick Stabulas (Drums) – 4,6,7,9,11




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Mose Allison - Way of the World (2010)



Mose Allison basically retired from studio recording after 1998’s dynamite Gimcracks and Gewgaws. Retired, that is, until producer Joe Henry met him in 2008 and dogged him until he graciously caved in. He coaxed Allison into his basement studio and cut the seven originals and five covers that became The Way of the World with a host of players from his own stable in five days. At 82, Allison is as smart, cagey, and inventive as ever. All but one of these cuts feature his weathered but still wiry dry baritone voice that exudes a trademark jazz singer cum beat poet’s phrasing. For anyone who’s seen him in the last decade -- or heard his jaw-dropping Live in London recordings -- his keyboard skills are sharp as an Argentine stiletto: give a listen to the lone instrumental, “Crush.” Allison's elastic harmonic sense is as beautifully unruly as Monk's, yet his improvisational ideas are carried by a nimble-fingered force worthy of Bud Powell. The opener, “My Brain,” is a smoking rewrite of Willie Dixon's “My Babe.” Allison reflects on the ever-changing intellectual capabilities of his gray matter while punching up the piano's middle register. The blues have been at the heart of Allison’s piano attack (Back Country Suite, 1957), though he’s always wedded them to swing, rag, and bop. Henry underscores that with subtle touches: the strummed Gypsy swing mandola on the ironic betrayal anthem “I Know You Didn’t Mean It” that engages with a knotty bluesed-out piano break and a warm tenor solo -- à la Ben Webster -- and “Everybody Thinks You’re an Angel,” a waltz with a Weissenborn guitar, follow a similar principle to delightfully different ends. On “Modest Proposal” Allison humorously asserts the compassionate idea that perhaps God is so weary he deserves a vacation. It’s a strutting piano-and-vocal number, where Allison's saloon-singer irony might scandalize a preacher but makes the congregation laugh. The elegant parlor ballad “Once in a While” and the shuffling, not brokenhearted blues of “I’m Alright” also stand out. The latter’s addition of electric guitar, mandola, and saxophone might seem like frills for an Allison session, but sound perfectly balanced and natural. On the final track, Buddy Johnson's WWII-era pop tune “This New Situation,” Allison duets with daughter Amy; the two swing beautifully together. The Way of the World is not a comeback album; Henry had a nagging suspicion that Allison might have something new to say and Allison obliged. In the process they created a gem of an album that proves the pianist and songwriter still has many tricks up his elegantly tailored, eternally hip sleeve. -- AMG


TrackList:

01 My Brain
02 I Know You Didn't Mean It
03 Everybody Thinks You're An Angel
04 Let It Come Down
05 Modest Proposal
06 Crush
07 Some Right, Some Wrong
08 The Way Of The World
09 Ask Me Nice
10 Once In A While
11 I'm Alright
12 This New Situation

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