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BVLP 1001

BVLP 1004

Al Smith

Mildred Anderson

Eddie Davis

Al Smith & Mildred Anderson With Eddie 'lockjaw' Davis (2 Lps On 1 Cd)

Al Smith / Mildred Anderson

Tenor saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis’ group gives Al Smith and Mildred Anderson sympathetic backing in these two fine albums recorded for the Prestige/Bluesville label in 1959 and 1960.

Smith, whose bold style was greatly influenced by the Gospel tradition, had the earthy quality often found in the best blues artists. His singing ranges from full-voiced and declamatory to intimate and confidential, but it always carried a charge of vitality that jolts the listener into full awareness. Mildred Anderson possesses a very individual Blues style, neither haunting, nor painful and filled with nostalgia, and certainly not the pretty, dressed up Blues then in vogue. Hers is the rough-hewn, pay-youback, swinging blues, direct, forceful and unsentimental.

Shirley Scott, Wendell Marshall, George Duvivier, and Arthur Edgehill drive powerfully, while on both sessions “Jaws” brings his huge, bustling highly vocalized tenor to bear with idiomatic authority on the material.


Tracklisting:

01. Night Time Is The Right Time (Oden-Sykes) 4:16
02. I’ll Be Alright (Smith) 3:50
03. I’ve Got The Right Kind of Lovin’ (Smith) 3:23
04. Never Let Me Go (Scott) 5:09
05. I’ve Got A Girl (Smith) 4:32
06. Tears In My Eyes (Smith) 5:59
07. Come On Pretty Babby (Smith) 2:54
08. Pledging My Love (Robey-Washington) 2:27
09. I’m Gettin’ ‘Long Alright [Connections]
(Sharp-Singleton) 2:41
10. I’m Free (Singleton-Bradshaw) 4:55
11. Don’t Deceive Me (Please Don’t Go) (Willis) 4:31
12. Hello Little Boy (Anderson) 3:43
13. Person To Person (Gold) 3:04
14. Cool Kind Of Poppa [Good Kind Daddy] (Smith) 2:55
15. Kidney Stew Blues (Vinson-Blackman) 3:48
16. I Didn’t Have A Chance (Curry) 4:44

Total time: 63:00 aprox.


Original sources:

Tracks #1-8 from the Al Smith Prestige/Bluesville
album "Hear My Blues" (BVLP 1001)

Tracks #9-16 from the Mildred Anderson
Prestige/Bluesville album "Person To Person" (BVLP 1004)



Personnel on HEAR MY BLUES (#1-8):

Al Smith (vcl), Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (ts), Shirley Scott (org), Wendell Marshall (b), Art Edgehill (d).

Recorded at Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
on September 20, 1959.



Personnel on PERSON TO PERSON (#9-16):

Mildred Anderson (vcl), Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (ts), Shirley Scott (org), George Duvivier (b), Art Edgehill (d).

Recorded at Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
on January 20, 1960.



Original recordings supervised by Esmond Edwards.
Sound engineer: Rudy Van Gelder.

Prodced for CD release by Jordi Pujol.


Stereo 24-Bit Digitally Remastered

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