Mose Allison (wtf?) C/D

For anyone looking for a good place to start, I'd recommend I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin'.

RIP

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

"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

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.

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 off
There's just too many pigs in the same trough
There's too many buzzards sitting on the fence
Stop this world, it's not making sense

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAwfnkO-PhA

really enjoyed that last record of his!

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."

billY cobham

I think The Fall's A Figure Walks might be a tribute to Foolkiller.

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.

New tribute album on the way:

If You’re Going to The City Tracklist:

1. Taj Mahal – Your Mind Is On Vacation
2. Robbie Fulks – My Brain
3. Jackson Browne – If You Live
4. The Tippo Allstars featuring Fiona Apple – Your Molecular Structure
5. Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite – Nightclub
6. Chrissie Hynde – Stop This World
7. Iggy Pop – If You’re Going to the City
8. Bonnie Raitt – Everybody’s Crying Mercy
9. Loudon Wainwright III – Ever Since the World Ended
10. Richard Thompson – Parchman Farm
11. Peter Case – I Don’t Worry About A Thing
12. Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin – Wild Man On the Loose
13. Anything Mose! – The Way of the World
14. Frank Black – Numbers On Paper
15. 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

1. Taj Mahal – Your Mind Is On Vacation

i just dropped the glass i was holding

yikes! a tribute album?!? hope profits go to the Allison Estate

Weird to have a tribute album with no jazz players on it.

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

The Who Live At Leeds: "Young Man Blues"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgR4SDxBJAo

been listening to the Western Man album quite a bit lately, which features the awesome "nightclub," so i'm curious about that one definitely.

these people are all so _old_. where is the tribute featuring 100 gecs and billie eilish?