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Mose John Allison, Jr. (born November 11, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and singer. He was born in Tippo, Mississippi, played piano in grammar school and trumpet in high school. He went to College at University of Mississippi and Louisiana State. He received a BA in English, and spent time between the two schools in the army. His music has influenced many blues and rock artists including The Rolling Stones, John Mayall, JJ Cale and The Who, who played his song "Young Man Blues" on sev...Read More >
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for no other reason than I heard this in my car today, and realised that I'd forgotten how good it was
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Thought it might be interesting, just for a change, to post not a later version of a song we already know, but the little-known original recording of a song better known from a subsequent incarnation. Bonnie Raitt made this song famous, but let's tip our collective cap to the man who wrote it and provides what is still, for me, the definitive version. If you ever sing along with recordings trying to keep up with the singer's phrasing (yes, I realize this makes me a geek)... MORE
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Hello There, Universe by Mose Allison is a great soundtrack for those times in your life when you're wondering what you're doing wrong. Oddly enough it also speaks to me when I'm looking back in a grateful but glad-i-don't-have-to-do-that-again kind of way at all the crap I had to go through to get where I am.
All this with Mose's clever style and fully tensioned harmonies.
Here's a bit of it:Hello there, Universe. Am I doing what you meant me to? Yo
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...A while back I'd written a tribute article to Charlie "Bird" Parker that later got published giving props where propers were due which led me to slap on some of Mose Allison's Anthology, Allison Wonderland-- The Mose Allison Anthology while listening to jazz that day and it blew me away...again. It felt like I was always checking him but I wasn't..I remember the first time I heard "Back Country Suite: Blues (aka "Young Man's Blues) in that wonderfully dark-ass film Permane... MORE
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Your Molecular Structure
0Jaunty up-beat jazz, light on the ear, with off-beat lyrics inc. the biological reference of the title.
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...I'd written a tribute article to Charlie "Bird" Parker in Rhino's R-zine back in August giving props where propers were due which I tend to do with artists who touch me on that, rare, profound level and last night I had another one of those moments... ...I was cutting in the crib reading a James Wolcott article last night and slapped on Mose Allison's Allison Wonderland-- The Mose Allison Anthology and got blown away...again...I remember the first time I heard "Back ... MORE
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(Mose Allison)
I'm back on th' corner
I'm right back on th' corner
I've been in this condition so many times before Back by my lonesome
I'm right back by my lonesome
Just watching th' people going from door to door I've got to change my ways
And try to quit this place
'Cause one of these rainy days
I'm gonna need a friendly face I'm back on th' corner
I'm right back on th' corner
I've been in this condition so many times before I've got to ch... MORE
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