Memory Pain (1992) more music like this

by Percy Mayfield

Ranging from major hits to alternate takes and rarities, this CD (released in 1992) illustrates the prolific nature of Percy Mayfield's Specialty Records output during the 1950s. Though not everything on Memory Pain is essential, the collection of early R&B and 12-bar blues is consistently satisfying. The best known song here is the number one hit ...

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1951-1954 (2005) more music like this

by Percy Mayfield

Percy Mayfield's songs are full of deep, fathomless fears and a kind of ominous, desperate loneliness that made him the master of the desolate ballad, and even his rare uptempo tracks have a sort of intangible pathos at the center (his best-known song, "Hit the Road Jack," is a perfect example). This second installment in Classic Records' ...

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Voice Within (1999) more music like this

by Percy Mayfield

Percy Mayfield is known equally for a string of hits he penned and recorded form 1950-1952. After a nasty accident that left him permanently disfigured he shied away from public performance, but continued to record, and became Ray Charles' right-hand man as a songwriter (anyone remember a little ditty called "Hit the Road Jack"?). But Mayfield's ...

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