Percy Mayfield - Poet Of The Blues (1990)

Tracklist

01. Please Send Me Someone To Love
02. Prayin' For Your Return
03. Strange Things Happening
04. Life Is Suicide (Album Version)
05. What A Fool I Was
06. Lost Love (Baby, Please)
07. Nightless Lover (Album Version)
08. Advice (For Men Only) (Album Version)
09. Cry Baby
10. Lost Mind (Album Version)
11. I Dare You, Baby (Album Version)
12. Hopeless (Album Version)
13. The Hunt Is On (Album Version)
14. The River's Invitation (Album Version)
15. The Big Question
16. Wasted Dream (Album Version)
17. Louisiana (Album Version)
18. The Bachelor Blues (Album Version)
19. Get Way Back (Album Version)
20. Memory Pain (Album Version)
21. Loose Lips (Album Version)
22. You Don't Exist No More (Album Version)
23. Nightmare (Album Version)
24. Baby, You're Rich (Album Version)
25. My Heart Is Cryin' (Album Version)

The insightful songwriting skills of this West Coaster were matched by his wry, plaintive vocal delivery (Mayfield was usually his own best interpreter). The 25 sides here date from his hit-laden 1950-1954 stay at Art Rupe's Specialty logo and include his universal lament "Please Send Me Someone to Love," and the resolutely downbeat "Strange Things Happening" and "Lost Love," and an ironic "The River's Invitation." Saxman Maxwell Davis led the horn-powered combos providing sympathetic support behind Mayfield.

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