Alberta Hunter - Amtrak Blues

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1980
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:30
Size: 90,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:23)  1. The Darktown Strutters Ball
(3:50)  2. Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out
(2:38)  3. I'm Having A Good Time
(3:44)  4. Always
(3:49)  5. My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More
(3:24)  6. Amtrak Blues
(4:14)  7. Old Fashioned Blues
(4:12)  8. Sweet Georgia Brown
(3:59)  9. A Good Man Is Hard To FInd
(4:13) 10. I've Got A Mind To Ramble

Alberta Hunter's second recording since launching her remarkable comeback (she was 83 when this album was cut) finds the veteran blues singer (a survivor of the 1920s) still in surprisingly strong form and full of spirit. Such songs as "Darktown Strutters' Ball," "My Handy Man," "Old Fashioned Love" and "I've Got a Mind to Ramble" are given fine treatment by Hunter, who is joined by the Gerald Cook quartet, trombonist Vic Dickenson, trumpeter Doc Cheatham and tenorman Frank Wess on various tracks. 

~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/amtrak-blues-mw0000193668

Amtrak Blues

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