Somehow managed to post this on the David Mancuso thread instead of this one.
Well done me. Not.
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Oh bollox. That has deflated my mood, for sure.
Inspiration for Georgie Fame’s career. A fine talented dude.
Parchman Farm.
Seventh Son.
Young Man Blues.
etc.
That was my fault, Mike. I made the comment on the Mancuso thread that I’d just heard about Mose Allison. Then I thought Mose deserves a thread of his own so I deleted my comment.
Funnily enough I almost said something to the effect of Georgie Fame pretty much owing his career to Mose Allison.
That’s the kind of thing that could happen to anyone.
No, as Mose explained in an interview, “I don’t do the cotton sack songs much anymore. You go to the Mississippi Delta and there are no cotton sacks. It’s all machines and chemicals.”
Bollocks. Back Country Suite was my introduction to Mose – his first album. No idea how I came to it – probably the legendary art teacher who also introduced me to Lightnin’ Hopkins.
Not much singing on the album, apart from Blues (aka Young Man Blues) and One Room Country Shack. What I mostly took away from it was his lithe, springy, nimble piano-playing – even now I can remember pretty much every note. As here:
This is easy enough to find on YouTube but in case you don’t, it’s well worth watching . . . . some tributes, ten years early:
Ben Sidran looking younger than when he was young, Georgie Fame acknowledging his early influence and Van Morrison looking happy onstage. Plus Mose himself.
Georgie Fame took everything from Mose Allison – but in a good way.
Here’s a bizarre clip of Georgie doing a cover of Mose’s Seventh Son with Pan’s People. Georgie is dressed rather oddly in bare feet, too.
Mose did it in straight 4/4 time, but in keeping with the title Georgie recorded it in 7/8 with quite strange results. It’s almost impossible to tap your foot to, let alone dance. God knows how Pan’s People did it.
I think the first Mose Allison song I heard was Young Man’s Blues covered by the Who at the live at Charlton gig an OGWT special IIRC. I had no idea who Mose Allison was. A few years later I bought Mose Allison Sings having heard some tracks of his on compilations. Great album and it had that track on it. All 1 minute and 27 seconds of it.
I was talking to a friend this morning about the death of Leonard Cohen, and the merits of buying multi-album boxed sets of his back catalogue. I said I preferred to buy even old albums separately, otherwise I never really got round to giving each album my full attention – apart from my Mose Allison “Eleven Classic Albums” 5 CD set, which I can listen to back-to-back all day.
I’m not mentioning any more of my ageing musical heroes for the rest of this foul year.
ivylander says
How much shittier can things get?
bricameron says
America votes for Trump as President?
ivylander says
That already happened. Bring on the giant meteor.
bricameron says
Do you have a preference to ice or gas?
ivylander says
Ice. The G&T is already prepared.
Mike_H says
Somehow managed to post this on the David Mancuso thread instead of this one.
Well done me. Not.
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Oh bollox. That has deflated my mood, for sure.
Inspiration for Georgie Fame’s career. A fine talented dude.
Parchman Farm.
Seventh Son.
Young Man Blues.
etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html
I s’pose 89 is pretty good going but c’mon you scientist peeps, how long must we wait to get immortality for our living legends?
Billybob Dylan says
That was my fault, Mike. I made the comment on the Mancuso thread that I’d just heard about Mose Allison. Then I thought Mose deserves a thread of his own so I deleted my comment.
Funnily enough I almost said something to the effect of Georgie Fame pretty much owing his career to Mose Allison.
Mike_H says
I did wonder where I’d read it.
Mose was GF’s inspiration for sure, and I don’t think he’d deny it, but I think he’s forged his own path since.
Johnny Concheroo says
From The Beano Album of course, it’s John Mayall’s version of Parchman Farm.
This was Mose’s most popular song for decades, but he said he stopped performing it in the 80s due to political correctness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vKGluBbhro
Mike_H says
But he does say:
“Gonna be here for the rest of my life.
All I did was shoot my wife”…
Can’t have that sort of thing now, can we?
Johnny Concheroo says
That’s the kind of thing that could happen to anyone.
No, as Mose explained in an interview, “I don’t do the cotton sack songs much anymore. You go to the Mississippi Delta and there are no cotton sacks. It’s all machines and chemicals.”
mikethep says
Bollocks. Back Country Suite was my introduction to Mose – his first album. No idea how I came to it – probably the legendary art teacher who also introduced me to Lightnin’ Hopkins.
Not much singing on the album, apart from Blues (aka Young Man Blues) and One Room Country Shack. What I mostly took away from it was his lithe, springy, nimble piano-playing – even now I can remember pretty much every note. As here:
Peanuts Molloy says
This is easy enough to find on YouTube but in case you don’t, it’s well worth watching . . . . some tributes, ten years early:
Ben Sidran looking younger than when he was young, Georgie Fame acknowledging his early influence and Van Morrison looking happy onstage. Plus Mose himself.
Peanuts Molloy says
My favourite Mose Allison cover version, I think:
Johnny Concheroo says
Georgie Fame took everything from Mose Allison – but in a good way.
Here’s a bizarre clip of Georgie doing a cover of Mose’s Seventh Son with Pan’s People. Georgie is dressed rather oddly in bare feet, too.
Mose did it in straight 4/4 time, but in keeping with the title Georgie recorded it in 7/8 with quite strange results. It’s almost impossible to tap your foot to, let alone dance. God knows how Pan’s People did it.
mikethep says
By shaking their booties, mostly…
MC Escher says
And of course he inspired the great, great track “Allison” by Pixies.
Alias says
I think the first Mose Allison song I heard was Young Man’s Blues covered by the Who at the live at Charlton gig an OGWT special IIRC. I had no idea who Mose Allison was. A few years later I bought Mose Allison Sings having heard some tracks of his on compilations. Great album and it had that track on it. All 1 minute and 27 seconds of it.
millymollymandy says
Nooooooooo!!! Not Mose.
I was talking to a friend this morning about the death of Leonard Cohen, and the merits of buying multi-album boxed sets of his back catalogue. I said I preferred to buy even old albums separately, otherwise I never really got round to giving each album my full attention – apart from my Mose Allison “Eleven Classic Albums” 5 CD set, which I can listen to back-to-back all day.
I’m not mentioning any more of my ageing musical heroes for the rest of this foul year.
Mousey says
Great lyric and lovely groove on this one