Jimmy Witherspoon Hey Mr. Landlord (LP)

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(Route 66) 17 tracks Jimmy Witherspoon is the blues singer of today, a band blues artist who... more

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Jimmy Witherspoon: Hey Mr. Landlord (LP)

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Jimmy Witherspoon is the blues singer of today, a band blues artist who is actually more at home in a jazz group than on a backwoods guitar.He is a shouter in the great tradition of Oe Turner, Jimmy Rushing and Walter Brown, specializing in blues songs but always interpreting them in a jazz context. Today he is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished and expressive singers in heavy jazz.

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Interpret: Jimmy Witherspoon
Album titlle: Hey Mr. Landlord (LP)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label ROUTE 66
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 4000127728555
weight in Kg 0.21

Witherspoon, Jimmy - Hey Mr. Landlord (LP) LP 1
01	Cain River Blues	Jimmy Witherspoon
02	Shipyard Woman Blues	Jimmy Witherspoon
03	I Want A Little Girl	Jimmy Witherspoon
04	Confessing The Blues	Jimmy Witherspoon
05	All My Geets Are Gone	Jimmy Witherspoon
06	Hard Working Man's Blues	Jimmy Witherspoon
07	Practice What You Preach	Jimmy Witherspoon
08	Strange Woman Blues	Jimmy Witherspoon
09	Hey Mr. Landlord	Jimmy Witherspoon
10	Third Floor Blues	Jimmy Witherspoon
11	Oh Boy	Jimmy Witherspoon
12	Wee Baby Blues	Jimmy Witherspoon
13	Geneva Blues	Jimmy Witherspoon
14	Big Daddy	Jimmy Witherspoon
15	Daddy Pinocchio	Jimmy Witherspoon
16	Why Do I Love You Like I Do?	Jimmy Witherspoon
17	My Girl Ivy	Jimmy Witherspoon

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Jimmy Witherspoon

Although he hailed from the Kansas City blues shouting tradition led by Big Joe Turner and Jimmy Rushing, Jimmy Witherspoon made the great majority of his early solo sides out in Los Angeles, where there were more than enough R&B indie labels to keep him busy in the studio virtually non-stop. Chief among them was Modern Records, which cut him extensively during the postwar years. But they were by no means the only label to welcome 'Spoon to their rosters.

"Boy, I think I ran out of companies, I was on so many," the late singer said. "They didn't give you that much money anyway. If you didn't have a hit record, they didn't need you no more." Witherspoon was born August 8, 1923 in Gurdon, Arkansas. "I've been singing all my life, in church, since I was about five years old," he said. "I always did want to sing." He got his big chance in 1943 in Calcutta, India, of all places. "I was in the Merchant Marines in World War II, and I was singing there with Teddy Weatherford's band," he said. "In '44, I came back to Vallejo, California, where my mother was living, and I joined Jay McShann then. That was my first job, really. I stayed with Jay for about four years."

Spoon replaced Walter Brown in pianist McShann's mighty orchestra (its alumni included Charlie Parker). He fronted the band on sides for Philo/Aladdin, Premier, and Mercury before making his own debut 78s for the L.A.-based Supreme logo in late 1947. That's the label he waxed his eternal calling card for: the two-part Ain't Nobody's Business, recast dramatically from Billie Holiday's downtrodden version, copyrighted as T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do in 1922, and first recorded by Anna Meyers and the Original Memphis Five. "Somebody came up with it—Al Patrick, who owned Supreme Records," he said. "Then I changed the lyrics. It's not the same as 'T'ain't Nobody's Business.' It's a takeoff steal from it, but it's not the same lyric." McShann was there to roll the 88s. "That was in Los Angeles, and he came out there to play, and I asked him to do it with me, which he did. The changes and everything, that was his." The two-sider sat on theR&B charts an unbelievable 34 weeks in 1949, including one at number one.

Witherspoon jumped to Modern in 1948 and made a motherlode of swinging R&B and mellow blues, displaying his way-behind-the-beat phrasing on the latter. Who's Been Jivin' You falls into the former camp, driving like mad over guitarist Chuck Norris' relentless chord work (Maxwell Davis and Vido Musso were the saxists, with Henry McDade on piano, Ralph Hamilton on bass, and Jesse Sailes on drums). Spoon shared writer's credit with Modern co-owner Joe Bihari (as Joe Josea).

From Modern, Jimmy migrated to Federal, Checker, Atlantic, RCA Victor, World Pacific, and Vee-Jay before an acclaimed appearance at the 1959 Monterey Jazz festival introduced him to a new demographic. He remained highly active, even triumphantly coming back from a 1981 bout with throat cancer, until the disease came back to permanently silence him on September 18, 1997.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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