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Mose Allison - Allison Wonderland: Anthology Audio CD

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Mose Allison Band: Mose Allison
Title: Allison Wonderland: Anthology
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Release Date: 1994-06-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Back Country Suite: Blues (aka Young Man's Blues) 2: Lost Mind 3: Parchman Farm 4: If You Live 5: 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 Nothin' 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: Fool Killer 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, I Live the Life I Love [Live] 27: That's All Right [Live] 28: Fool's Paradise [Live] 29: If You're Goin' to the City 30: Everybody's Cryin' Mercy 31: Feel So Good 32: Your Molecular Structure 33: Monsters of the Id 34: Hello There, Universe 35: I Don't Want Much 36: How Much Truth 37: Western Man 38: I'm Just a Lucky So and So 39: Tennessee Waltz 40: Ever Since the World Ended 41: Top Forty 42: Josephine 43: Gettin' There 44: Ever Since I Stole the Blues 45: You Call It Joggin' 46: Big Brother 47: Gettin' Paid Waltz

Mose Allinson
Mose was just fantastic. Being around in the sixties. He influenced many people including Georgie Fame, Rolling stones and heaps more. This album brings back everything I ever remember when I was so much younger. It comes highly recommended.
Yours keith Jennings
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I can't believe this monumental compilation has received only six rave reviews!
Without question the hippest, wittiest, coolest, swingingest songwriter, pianist, and singer ever to rise from the Mississippi Delta, Mose is a delight in every respect, a writer's writer and performer's performer who has been deeply influential in both style and substance for over three generations, from the fifties through the new century. This is prima facie evidence that Mose Allison is an underappreciated jazz giant. His songs have been praised and covered by a panoply of greats: The Rolling Stones, John Mayall, J. J. Cale, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Clash, Leon Russell, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, and many more. If you don't know him, you owe it to yourself to discover him, and this album is the perfect place to start. If you already know him, you need this album, as it has all of his greatest songs. It's a gas!.


Best Kept Jazz Secret
Like folk-blues singer/guitarist Snooks Eaglin he is a largely hidden gem who should be brought into national prominence through appearances on some of those ubiquitous talk shows. Mose Allison is still with us - he'd be 79 years old - and out there still entertaining discerning fans with his easy blend of Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker.

Just listen to his composition Back Country Suite, first heard way back in 1957 when he recorded for the Prestige label and which was the subject of critical - if not popular - acclaim. Or Parchman Farm, and Seventh Son, and I Love The Life I Live which, with many others from his repertoire, influenced a whole slew of artists throughout the 1960s.

Well worth the hefty price. .


This guy is unbelievable.
I caught Mose play last night in Miami and what a fan he turned me into! His voice is as good now as it was recorded in the studio, no lie. I have just been newly exposed to an artist that I can only describe as a legend. As I was sampling and purchasing his anthology, that is all I was thinking; you can still see an icon like this, 70something years old, convincingly in his prime.

The anthology is a great place to start, considering I recognize half of the songs from the show immediately. .


The Ultimate From The Ultimate Hipster
This double CD set of his "best" material gives casual buyers a superb overview of the man's fifty years in the biz. Mose Allison is the ultimate hipster: his laconic yet never lazy delivery as smooth as a sunny summer afternoon breeze, his songs wry and sardonic set pieces filled with just the right amount of irony and wit, the music surrounding them uncluttered and casual. It starts with early cuts for Riverside in the fifties and winds on down through his Atlantic years (thanks to keenly biting songs like "Your Mind Is On Vacation" and "Your Molecular Structure") and ends up in the late eighties and mid nineties for Blue Note. Especially cool is hearing a grand cut like "Ever Since The World Ended", a post-Apocalypse blues that's genuinely funny and heart-warming at the same time (it's taken from the album of the same name on Blue Note, a totally recommended yet sadly deleted disc should the reader come across it). Here's the amazing thing: whether you listen to a classic like "Parchman's Farm" or his most recent material, Mose Allison sounds like he hasn't aged. Or maybe it's just that then and now, he was/is always just that much more ahead of us. We are not worthy! But we'll gladly enjoy this great anthology!.


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