Jimmy Witherspoon Baby Baby Baby (blues)(flac)[rogercc][h33t]

JIMMY WITHERSPOON BABY BABY BABY
Label Original Blues Classics
Original Release: 1963
Format: Flac



Veteran singer Jimmy Witherspoon is in good voice on this CD reissue, performing a dozen two- to four-minute songs that include such blues standards as Duke Ellington's "Rocks in My Bed," "Bad Bad Whiskey," "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" and "It's a Lonesome Old World." He is joined by a quintet featuring altoist Leo Wright and guitarist Kenny Burrell on the first eight numbers and a background septet (with trumpeter Bobby Bryant and Arthur Wright on harmonica) for the remainder of the set. The music is enjoyable if not classic, and should please Witherspoon's many fans. ~ Scott Yanow


Recorded in New York City on May 6 [tracks 1-8], and in Los Angeles on July 8, 1963. [tracks 9-12]
Originally released on Prestige (7290).



Tracklist:
1 Mean Old Frisco 3:14
2 Rocks In My Bed 2:46
3 Bad, Bad Whiskey 3:08
4 Baby Baby Baby 3:06
5 Sail On Little Girl 2:50
6 One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer 3:02
7 Lonely Boy Blues 2:52
8 Blues and Trouble 2:55
9 Endless Sleep 2:17
10 I'll Go On Living 3:47
11 I Can't Hardley See 2:42
12 It's a Lonesome Old World 3:30



Personnel:
Jimmy Witherspoon (vocals) [all tracks]
Kenny Burrell [tracks 1-8]
Herman Mitchell (guitar) [tracks 9-12]
Arthur Wright (harmonica) [tracks 9-12]
Leo Wright (alto saxophone, tambourine) [tracks 1-8]
Jimmy Allen (tenor saxophone) [tracks 9-12]
Bobby Bryant (trumpet, flugelhorn) [tracks 9-12]
Gildo Mahones (piano) [tracks 1-8]
Ernie Freeman (piano)
George Tucker (bass) [tracks 1-8]
Jimmy Bond (bass) [tracks 9-12]
Jimmie Smith (drums) [tracks 1-8]
Jimmy Miller (drums)