Gatemouth Moore - Cryin' And Singin' The Blues: The Complete National Recordings 1945-1946 (2004)

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Artist: Gatemouth Moore
Title: Cryin' And Singin' The Blues: The Complete National Recordings 1945-1946
Year Of Release: 2004
Label: Savoy Jazz [SVY 17327]
Genre: Blues, Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log) / WAV (tracks)
Total Time: 59:33
Total Size: 138 mb / 160 mb / 604 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Gatemouth Moore (Arnold Dwight Moore) has been called the last of the blues shouters, a title that isn't entirely accurate. His forte, at least prior to turning to gospel late in his career, was in midtempo bluesy ballads that really fall a lot closer to jazz than they do to gutbucket blues. He was also a strong and gifted songwriter, and at least one of his songs, the articulate "Did You Ever Love a Woman," is an absolute lost classic. This compilation pulls together all his work for National Records between 1945 and 1946, and includes "Did You Ever Love a Woman" as well as the stately and haunting "Christmas Blues" and two takes of the clever "I Ain't Mad at You Pretty Baby," which features a lead horn riff drawn from Count Basie's "Jumpin' at the Woodside." Singing in front of such stellar jazz players as Budd Johnson, Jimmy Hamilton, Harry Carney, Dick Vance, and John Hardee, Moore's voice moves from soft to gritty and back again as each song demands, always with an affecting and intangible feeling of joy, even as the lyrics hint at romantic desolation. Moore moved on to King Records following these sessions, and re-recorded many of the titles found here, before leaving secular music behind in 1949.

:: TRACKLIST ::

1. Gatemouth Moore & Dallas Bartley & His Smalltown Boys – I Ain't Mad At You Pretty Baby (02:54)
2. Gatemouth Moore & Dallas Bartley & His Smalltown Boys – Get Your House In Order (03:00)
3. Gatemouth Moore & Dallas Bartley & His Smalltown Boys – It Ain't None Of Me (03:03)
4. Gatemouth Moore & Dallas Bartley & His Smalltown Boys – Cryin' And Singin' The Blues (02:55)
5. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – Did You Ever Love A Woman (02:50)
6. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – I'm Going Way Back Home (02:57)
7. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – Isabel (03:30)
8. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – I Put Her Out (02:58)
9. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – Walking My Blues Away (02:39)
10. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – Bum Dee Dah Ra Dee (02:51)
11. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – I'd Give It To You (02:57)
12. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – They Can't Do This To You (02:50)
13. Gatemouth Moore & The Tiny Grimes Swingtet – Christmas Blues (03:01)
14. Gatemouth Moore & The Tiny Grimes Swingtet – Let's Go Back And Try One More Time (03:04)
15. Gatemouth Moore & The Tiny Grimes Swingtet – Love Doctor Blues (03:04)
16. Gatemouth Moore & The Tiny Grimes Swingtet – Nobody Knows The Way I Feel (02:58)
17. Gatemouth Moore & Dallas Bartley & His Smalltown Boys – I Ain't Mad At You Pretty Baby (02:52)
18. Gatemouth Moore & Dallas Bartley & His Smalltown Boys – It Ain't None Of Me (03:23)
19. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – I Put Her Out (03:13)
20. Gatemouth Moore & Budd Johnson Orchestra – They Can't Do This To You (02:43)

Tracks 2, 4 & 16 are previously unissued.
Tracks 7,14 & 17-20 are previously unissued alternate takes.
Annotated by Bill Vera.

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