{"id":6796,"date":"2016-11-20T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T15:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2016-11-20T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T15:38:26","slug":"mose-allison-1927-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6796","title":{"rendered":"Mose Allison 1927 – 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mose Allison, chilling in his far out chair, in the woods…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Mose Allison – The Seventh Son<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download Mose Allison – Young Man (Blues) <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download Mose Allison – I’m Not Talking<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Mose Allison – Baby Please Don’t Go<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Mose Allison – I Love the Life I Live\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Mose Allison – Your Mind Is On Vacation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is a repost\/augmentation of a post I wrote back in 2013. Last week was an especially heavy one for music lovers, with the loss of Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell, Billy Miller of Norton Records and lastly (but never leastly) the mighty Mose Allison.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mose was 89 years old and had only recently given up playing live.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He was one of my all time favorites, a foundational artist in my sensibility and an absolute master.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m adding a couple of other Mose classics to the links below.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you know, dig. If you do not get familiar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ll see you on Wednesday – L<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Have you heard about Mose?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allison, that is\u2026aka the Sage of Tippo\u2026aka the smoothest badass to ever prop himself up at a piano and lay it down.<\/p>\n

If you \u2013 like me \u2013 has made a study of the roots of rock, especially the British Invasion, or just surveyed the history of coolness, then you have certainly crossed paths with the mighty Mose.<\/p>\n

Mose Allison<\/strong> has the kind of voice\/manner that immediately brings to mind the black-and-white, beatnik cool of the 1950s. Jack Kerouac\u2019s<\/strong> America, in which one was free to roam the highways and back roads of this great country, partaking in, and becoming part of the great tableaux, digging and being dug in equal measures.<\/p>\n

Mose Allison \u2013 born and raised in Mississippi – sat himself down at the piano and made his first record in 1957, and hasn\u2019t stopped being one of the coolest of cats since then.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I heard Mose until I was all but drowning in the British beat\/R&B thing, up to and including the sounds of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames<\/strong>, which is important because if Mose Allison had never recorded a note, old Clive Powell<\/strong> would likely disappear from the face of the earth.<\/p>\n

The first time I heard Mose, an overloaded socket in theback of my brain threw sparks and I realized how much Georgie idolized and emulated him, as well as all of the Brits who looked to him as a songwriter and interpreter of songs.<\/p>\n

It was Mose that wrote \u2018Parchman Farm\u2019 (John Mayall<\/strong> and everyone else with a blues fetish), \u2018Young Man Blues\u2019 (the Who<\/strong>) and \u2018I\u2019m Not Talking\u2019 (the Yardbirds<\/strong>) among many others, and laid down what I would consider to be the definitive interpretation of Willie Dixon\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Seventh Son\u2019.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m including the last three tunes here today, so that you might head out and dig for your own stack of Mose Allison records, that you can whip out and impress the ladies at your next soiree.<\/p>\n

Both \u2018Young Man Blues\u2019 and \u2018The Seventh Son\u2019 hail from Allison\u2019s landmark 1963 \u2018Mose Allison Sings\u2019 LP for Prestige.<\/p>\n

\u2018Young Man Blues\u2019 – clocking in at less than a minute and a half \u2013 is a laid back meditation, barely a whisper compared to the angry box of TNT that the Who detonated on \u2018Live at Leeds\u2019.<\/p>\n

Mose\u2019s take on \u2018The Seventh Son\u2019 is a masterpiece of relaxed, swinging Zen, every note perfectly placed, a wonder. He takes the Mississippi hoodoo boasts of the OG and delivers them in a matter-of-fact way that puts the text in boldface.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m Not Talking\u2019, from 1964\u2019s \u2018The Word From Mose\u2019 on Atlantic, is once again, the placid, almost dehumidified-it\u2019s-so-dry foundation on which the mighty Yardbirds built a souped-up, nitro-fueled funny car with which they blew the doors off of the \u2018For Your Love\u2019 album in 1965.<\/p>\n

The grooviest thing of all is that for all of the influence he pushed out, Mose himself was always more like a shadow, hanging back, just being, than anyone who took their marching orders from his records. He spent the last 50-plus years making music of high quality, crossing the border back and forth between the blues and jazz, always being more himself than anything else and that was all he ever needed to be.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not hip to Mose, get there.<\/p>\n

That is all<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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