Jimmy Witherspoon & Panama Francis' Savoy Sultans - S/T (Definitive Black & Blue Sessions)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:15
Size: 137.9 MB
Styles: Urban blues, Jazz-blues
Year: 2002/2008
Art: Front

[3:47] 1. Sent For You Yesterday
[7:07] 2. I Want A Little Girl
[3:52] 3. Don't You Miss Your Baby
[4:41] 4. Good Morning Blues
[6:18] 5. Moten Swing
[5:16] 6. Goin' To Chicago
[4:37] 7. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
[3:17] 8. I May Be Wrong(Boogie Woogie)
[3:15] 9. Rain Keeps Falling Down
[3:07] 10. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
[3:52] 11. Sent For You Yesterday
[3:20] 12. I May Be Wrong (Take 1)
[3:07] 13. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (Take 1)
[4:31] 14. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Take 2)

Recording Date: May 19, 1980 & May 25, 1980. Jimmy Witherspoon (vcl), Francis Williams (tp), George Kelly (ts), Bill Easley (as), Bobby Smith (as), Red Richards (p), John Smith (g), Bill Pemberton (b) & Panama Francis (d).

Including some of Jimmy Witherspoon's finest performances, the Definitive Black & Blue Sessions is a handsomely compiled 14-track set of Witherspoon's tenure with bandleader Panama Francis. Often neglected in the artist's impressive body of work, the release of this disc calls for a reappraisal. Although nearing the end of his career, Witherspoon is in fine voice, and his work on "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," in particular, is astonishing. Panama Francis' Savoy Sultans provide fine musical accompaniment, intuitively knowing when to hold back and when to dominate. As befits such great music, the disc is handsomely annotated and packaged. ~Thomas Ward

Jimmy Witherspoon & Panama Francis' Savoy Sultans

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