Been getting into Mose quite a bit lately.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
For anyone looking for a good place to start, I'd recommend I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin'.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
― Brad C., Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
I was fortunate enough to see him perform a few years ago, and he was still putting on a great show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VEzCv5cMWI&feature=share&list=PL71A44B6F7E47E3A7&index=2
― o. nate, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
"seventh son" and "your molecular structure" have been stone-cold classics in my house for...... sheesh 20 years now. the coolest. he was jazz but not jazz. something about the sonority of his voice, the fullness of it, reminded me of dusty springfield
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
RIP. I just got Seventh Son comp a month or so ago and have been loving it. Chose this comp over several other albums the shop had based on the Annie Leibovitz photographs alone. So good.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 November 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
I've had the 2-disc comp Allison Wonderland since it was released (mid-90s) and rarely go more than a year-or-two between listens; never got into his proper albums, but would appreciate input from anybody who's sifted a bit deeper into his catalog.
Stop this world, let me offThere's just too many pigs in the same troughThere's too many buzzards sitting on the fenceStop this world, it's not making sense
― bodacious ignoramus, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Only just realised he had passed when a belated obituary was on the radio earlier. Fucking amazing and unique vocalist, have been blasting out Seventh Son tonight in tribute.
― calzino, Friday, 2 December 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAwfnkO-PhA
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 January 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
really enjoyed that last record of his!
― Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit (rushomancy), Sunday, 13 January 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
recently got western man and it rules. bill cobham on drums. when it's not totally grooving, it's absolutely heart-rending. see: "how much truth."
― andrew m., Monday, 14 January 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
billY cobham
― andrew m., Monday, 14 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
I think The Fall's A Figure Walks might be a tribute to Foolkiller.
― calzino, Monday, 14 January 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
I know there was a Brian Auger single of the song anyway. Thought I had it on a compilation of their work somewhere. maybe it was the charly compilation i got of them early on. Looks like it was an expanded version of Jools & Brian, possibly a volume of Remembering.
― Stevolende, Monday, 14 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
New tribute album on the way:
If You’re Going to The City Tracklist:
1. Taj Mahal – Your Mind Is On Vacation2. Robbie Fulks – My Brain3. Jackson Browne – If You Live4. The Tippo Allstars featuring Fiona Apple – Your Molecular Structure5. Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite – Nightclub6. Chrissie Hynde – Stop This World7. Iggy Pop – If You’re Going to the City8. Bonnie Raitt – Everybody’s Crying Mercy9. Loudon Wainwright III – Ever Since the World Ended10. Richard Thompson – Parchman Farm11. Peter Case – I Don’t Worry About A Thing12. Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin – Wild Man On the Loose13. Anything Mose! – The Way of the World14. Frank Black – Numbers On Paper15. Amy Allison with Elvis Costello – Monsters of the Id
With Loudon Wainwright doing a late-80s one I love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFIrhwzhpM
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 27 September 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
1. Taj Mahal – Your Mind Is On Vacationi just dropped the glass i was holding
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 September 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
yikes! a tribute album?!? hope profits go to the Allison Estate
― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, 3 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
Weird to have a tribute album with no jazz players on it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 October 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
Good point, although hopefully Taj will deal with that feel, also maybe incl. right musos---as will Raitt, if it's her original cover, from Takin' My Time: Ernie Watts, Milt Holland, Oscar Brashear etc. appear on there. I wonder if there has been a jazz world tribute? Think Van Morrison's Mose set was one of his Blue Note albums, but I haven't heard it.From 1988, when he was 61 or thereabouts, here he is at the top of his keyboard game, like some blues- bopping Professor Longhair, roque-rolling with it (some vocals too):https://www.npr.org/2013/04/05/176333998/mose-allison-on-piano-jazz
― dow, Friday, 4 October 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
The Who Live At Leeds: "Young Man Blues"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgR4SDxBJAo
― dow, Friday, 4 October 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
been listening to the Western Man album quite a bit lately, which features the awesome "nightclub," so i'm curious about that one definitely.
― andrew m., Friday, 4 October 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
these people are all so _old_. where is the tribute featuring 100 gecs and billie eilish?
― Calpico Girlfriend (rushomancy), Friday, 4 October 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link