Mose Allison [2-fer]
Mose Allison
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CAT # PRCD-24002-25
1. New Ground 2:04 2. Train 1:48 3. Warm Night 1:45 4. Young Man's Blues 1:26 5. Saturday 1:22 6. Scamper 2:13 7. January 1:37 8. Promised Land 2:03 9. Spring Song 1:21 10. Highway 49 1:38 11. Blueberry Hill 2:57 12. You Won't Let Me Go 3:44 13. I Thought About You 3:51 14. One Room Country Shack 3:02 15. In Salah 3:47 16. Parchman Farm 3:21 17. Carnival 3:02 18. Crepuscular Air 3:45 19. Mojo Woman 4:04 20. Town 3:23 21. Trouble In Mind 3:15 22. Lost Mind 3:32 23. I'll Never Be Free 5:38 24. Don't Ever Say Goodbye 3:14 25. Ain't You A Mess 2:42
Mose Allison had already established himself as a unique jazz voice with his early Prestige albums of Back Country Suite and Local Color (from which this package comes) when the new generation of rock/blues devotees discovered him all over again as Pete Townshend of The Who explains in his notes.
*#1-15 originally released as Back Country Suite (Prestige 7091); #16-25 as Local Color (Prestige 7121).
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