Specialty Profiles (2006) more music like this

by Percy Mayfield

Percy Mayfield was blessed with an emotive Louisiana baritone and a poet's sensibility to sadness and pain, and few songwriters in the history of pop or R&B have written a body of work so drenched in beautiful suffering. This set features Mayfield's major hits for Art Rupe's Specialty Records, a label that Mayfield recorded for from 1950 until ...

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Percy Mayfield Live (1992) more music like this

by Percy Mayfield

Although the first-ever release of live Mayfield material is culled from performances between 1981 and 1983, the twilight of the singer's blues career, he remains in fine, laidback voice throughout. The selections draw on all periods of his three decades as a songwriter, and include "Please Send Me Someone to Love," "The River's Invitation," and ...

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Meet Me in Uptown (1996) more music like this

by The Mighty Blue Kings

Yet another band to emerge out of the '90s swing revival scene, but these guys came out before Brian Setzer hit it big, before the movie Swingers was ever scripted and before those Gap ads taught us how to "Jump, Jive an' Wail." It's safe to say that Chicago's Mighty Blue Kings were ahead of their time before any trend bandwagon hit. And with ...

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Poet of the Blues (1990) more music like this

by Percy Mayfield

The insightful songwriting skills of this West Coaster were matched by his wry, plaintive vocal delivery (Mayfield was usually his own best interpreter). The 25 sides here date from his hit-laden 1950-1954 stay at Art Rupe's Specialty logo and include his universal lament "Please Send Me Someone to Love," and the resolutely downbeat "Strange ...

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The Best of Percy Mayfield (1970) more music like this

by Percy Mayfield

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Hipsters, Zoots & Wingtips, Vol. 2: The Original Swingers (1999) more music like this

by Various Artists

The successor to the debut installment The '90s Swingers, this album of '40s and '50s swing includes classics like "Cadillac Boogie" by Jimmy Liggins, "Caldonia" by Louis Jordan, "Hit That Jive, Jack" by Nat King Cole and "Tippin' In" by Erskine Hawkins. Not all the tracks are the best original swingers available, but each is a solid example of ...

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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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Let's Start Something (2008) more music like this

by Rob Roy Parnell

Rob Roy Parnell's Texas roadhouse music has been keeping dancefloors jammed with sweaty, satisfied patrons for a long time. Waylon Jennings sang with him on "Jacksboro Highway," his 2000 debut as a leader, and Delbert McClinton thought enough of him to lend him his band for this outing, a smoking blend of blues, R&B, boogie-woogie, and soul music. ...

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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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