Track Listing 1. Take This Hammer (part 1) 2. Goin' To Chicago Blues 3. In Blues 4. Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You 5. Losers Blues 6. Please Send Me Someone To Love 7. Key To The Highway 8. Cry The Blues 9. Out Blues (For Big Joe) 10. Since I Fell For You 11. Everything 12. Take This Hammer (part 2)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Contributing Artists: | Witherspoon, Jimmy & Richard 'Groove' Holmes | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | ADA/Cinram Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Full performer name: Jimmy Witherspoon/Groove Holmes.Personnel includes: Jimmy Witherspoon (vocals); Groove Holmes (Hammond B-3 organ).All tracks have been digitally remastered.This underrated '60s session finds Witherspoon in an especially sympathetic setting. Groove Holmes' jazz/R&B organ work is the perfect complement to Witherspoon's genre-bending combination of jazz, soul, and Big Joe Turner-influenced blues. SPOON & GROOVE fuses all of those elements into an irresistible whole not entirely dissimilar to Sam Cooke's NIGHT BEAT. Both albums feature jazzy interpretations of classic tunes from the rhythm & blues pantheon.There are pleasant surprises around every corner. Pianist Paul Moer leads off the Big Joe nod "Out Blues" with a rhumba intro, and the old spiritual "Take This Hammer" is transformed into some of the funkiest testifying this side of, well, Sam Cooke. Drummer Frank Butler injects a strong post-Elvin Jones bebop sensibility into the proceedings with his standout solo on "Goin' To Chicago Blues," a staple of Witherspoon idol Jimmy Rushing. Impossible to pigeonhole, this elegant mongrel of a recording shows that Witherspoon's ears and heart match his famous frame and his luxurious, sensual voice.
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