George Benson - I Got A Woman And Some Blues (1984) Flac

Tracklist

1. I Got A Woman
2. Out Of The Blue
3. Bluesadelic
4. Durham's Turn
5. Godd Morning, Blues
6. I Worry 'Bout You
7. Without Her
8. She Went A Little Bit Farther
9. Goodbye, Columbus

Recorded : April 30, May 20, June 4, August 19 & 20, and September 3, 1969

This mysterious album was supposed to be A&M/CTI's last release but it lay fallow until 1984 when it came out on A&M's Audio Master series along with a bunch of A&M/CTI reissues. Why was it shelved? A subjective guess is that it just isn't that good; it's as patchy and disjointed as The Other Side of Abbey Road is brilliantly unified. Even the title seems like an afterthought 15 years after the fact. No personnel or arrangers are listed, but some of the tracks sound like outtakes from Tell It Like It Is; the charts have the same sharp reeds/trumpet attack. The best cut by far is Benson's own Latin-flavored instrumental "Durham's Turn." "Out of the Blue" has a rare acoustic/electric guitar duet under Benson's romantic vocal, and the great guitarist always comes through with something worth hearing when asked. Still, as Yul Brynner puts it in The King and I, a puzzlement.~Richard S. Ginell