Poet of the Blues
Poet of the Blues
表演者: Percy Mayfield
介质: CD
发行时间: 1990
唱片数: 1
出版者: Specialty
条形码: 0022211700128
专辑简介
If the name Percy Mayfield elicits a blank stare today, tell 'em he wrote "Hit the Road, Jack" and three other major hits for Ray Charles. Tell 'em that the likes of B.B. King, Nancy Wilson, and other artists of stature have recorded his songs. Tell 'em that for two years--1950 to 1952--he was a dominant presence on the R&B charts while recording for Art Rupe's Specialty Records. Tell 'em that men envied his silky, seductive vocal style, and women swooned over it. Tell 'em he was a giant among the writers of his era, and fearless in his subject matter--tackling racism in "Please Send Me Someone to Love," his No. 1 single from 1950, and laying out his own despairing worldview with startling frankness in songs such as "Life Is Suicide" and the haunting "Memory Pain." Tell 'em you can dance to his songs, make love to his songs, or deconstruct them for a deeper message about the state of affairs in America at the outset of the modern civil rights era. Tell 'em he's the poet of the blues, and there's 25 tracks here that prove the point. Tell 'em he's Percy Mayfield. Case closed.
--David McGee
曲目
1Please Send Me Someone To Love
2Prayin' For Your Return
3Strange Things Happening
4Life Is Suicide
5What A Fool I Was
6Lost Love
7Nightless Lover
8Advice
9Cry Baby
10Lost Mind
11I Dare You, Baby
12Hopeless
13The Hunt Is On
14The River's Invitation
15The Big Question
16Wasted Dream
17Louisiana
18Bachelor Blues
19Get Way Back
20Memory Pain
21Loose Lips
22You Don't Exist No More
23Nightmare
24Baby, You're Rich
25My Heart Is Cryin'