The Word From Mose

by Mose Allison

The Word From Mose cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1964
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 55:20
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Word From Mose' highlights Mose Allison's hybrid identity as pianist, singer, and songwriter whose work linked jazz phrasing with blues language and dry lyrical humor. The album reflects the understated style that made him influential among later rock and blues-rock musicians.

Genres

Descriptors: witty, melodic

Tracklist

  1. V-8 Ford Blues (2:14)
  2. Hey, Good Lookin' (1:40)
  3. Life Is Suicide (2:43)
  4. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (1:26)
  5. Ask Me Nice (2:31)
  6. Back on the Corner (1:52)
  7. If You're Going to the City (3:46)
  8. I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues (3:54)
  9. Swingin' Machine (2:27)
  10. Stop This World (3:26)
  11. The Song Is Ended (2:36)
  12. Meet Me at No Special Place (2:33)
  13. It Didn't Turn out That Way (2:44)
  14. I Don't Worry About a Thing (2:15)
  15. City Home (2:31)
  16. I Love the Life I Live - Uk EP Version (2:21)
  17. Your Mind Is on Vacation (2:38)
  18. The Well (3:20)
  19. Idyll (4:16)
  20. Stand By (3:58)

Credits

  • Mose Allison - primary artist, piano, vocals, written-by, vocal
  • Ben Tucker - bass
  • Ron Lundberg - drums, membranophone
  • Don Raye - written-by
  • Gene DePaul - written-by
  • Richard M. Jones - written-by
  • Everett Barksdale - written-by
  • Stanley Willis - written-by

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