Jimmy Witherspoon was either a blues singer who worked from a jazz perspective, or a jazz singer with blues tendencies, or most accurately, a blues singer who applied jazz rhythms to a gospel delivery, which makes him, in some ways, a less propulsive version of Ray Charles. This disc of his earliest recordings, most of them released on Modern Records, shows Witherspoon predominantly as a shouter, and he sounds like a man used to years of fronting a small jazz orchestra. In time his microphone technique would improve, and he learned how to let subtle nuances into his singing, working both ends of the hard/soft dynamic into his phrasing. But these tracks find him belting things out, and while that’s effective, it also gets a little samey after a few songs, so it’s songs like “Rain, Rain, Rain,” which feature a more measured vocal style, that really stand out here. Working mostly with pianist Gene Gilbeaux and his bop-influenced small orchestras, these tracks have a transitional feel, but it wouldn’t take Witherspoon long to figure out what to do. His wonderful “Ain’t Nobody’s Business,” a runaway number one R&B hit in 1949, was just around the corner.
Tracklist:
01. Funny Style Baby
02. Cold Blooded Boogie
03. Lush Head Woman
04. Long About Dawn
05. Miss Clawdy B
06. Thelma Lee Blues
07. Pinocchio Blues
08. Cake Jump
09. Your Red Wagon
10. Sweet Lovin’ Baby
11. Geneva Blues
12. Feelin’ So Sad
13. Same Old Blues
14. I Love You Just the Same
15. Connie Lee
16. T.B. Blues
17. Big Fine Girl
18. Jump Children (Good Jumpin’)
19. Take Me Back Baby
20. Who’s Been Jivin’ You
21. Rain, Rain, Rain
22. When I Had My Money
23. Doctor Blues
24. Big Fine Girl
25. No Rollin’ Blues
Total time: 01:08:06
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Thanks to рмх222
See also:
Jimmy Witherspoon – Baby, Baby, Baby (1963) [Reissue 2006]
Jimmy Witherspoon – Evenin’ Blues (1964) [Reissue 2006]
Jimmy Witherspoon – Some Of My…he Blues (1964) [Reissue 1994]
Jimmy Witherspoon – Rockin’ L.A. (1989)
Jimmy Witherspoon – The Blues,…d Nothing But The Blues (1992)
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