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Allison Wonderland Anthology

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Released
  
1994

Length
  
137:25

Release date
  
21 June 1994

Recorded
  
1952-1989

Artist
  
Mose Allison

Label
  
Rhino Entertainment

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Allison Wonderland(1994)

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Tell Me Something The Songs of Mose Allison(1996)

Genres
  
Vocal jazz, Jazz blues, Swing music, Hard bop

Similar
  
Mose Allison albums, Other albums

Allison Wonderland: The Mose Allison Anthology is a two disc compilation album by the jazz pianist and songwriter Mose Allison, released in 1994. Rhino sequenced the selected songs (which span over 40 years, from 1957 to 1989), and include all of his best-known songs chronologically. It's considered an excellent introduction to Mose Allison compositions.

Contents

Disc One

  1. "Back Country Suite: Blues [A.K.A. 'Young Man's Blues']" (Mose Allison)
  2. "Lost Mind"
  3. "Parchman Farm" (Mose Allison)
  4. "If You Live" (Mose Allison)
  5. "The Seventh Son" (Willie Dixon)
  6. "Eyesight to the Blind"
  7. "Baby, Please Don't Go"
  8. "Fool's Paradise"
  9. "V-8 Ford Blues"
  10. "Ask Me Nice" (Mose Allison)
  11. "Hey, Good Lookin'"
  12. "Back On The Corner" (Mose Allison)
  13. "Your Mind Is On Vacation" (Mose Allison- Audre Mae)
  14. "Meet Me At No Special Place"
  15. "I Don't Worry About A Thing" (Mose Allison)
  16. "I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues"
  17. "Swingin' Machine" (Mose Allison)
  18. "Stop This World" (Mose Allison)
  19. "I'm Not Talking" (Mose Allison)
  20. "I'm The Wild Man" (Stanley Willis, Don Barksdale)
  21. "Your Red Wagon"
  22. "Foolkiller" (Mose Allison)
  23. "Wild Man On The Loose" (Mose Allison)
  24. "You Can Count On Me To Do My Part" (Mose Allison)
  25. "Smashed (Live)" (Mose Allison)
  26. "I Love The Life I Live (Live)"
  27. "That's Alright (Live)"
  28. "Fool's Paradise (Live)"

Disc Two

  1. "If You're Goin' To The City" (Mose Allison)
  2. "Everybody Cryin' Mercy" (Mose Allison)
  3. "Feel So Good" (Mose Allison)
  4. "Molecular Structure" (Mose Allison)
  5. "Monsters Of The Id" (Mose Allison)
  6. "Hello There, Universe" (Mose Allison)
  7. "I Don't Want Much" (Mose Allison)
  8. "How Much Truth" (Mose Allison)
  9. "Western Man" (Mose Allison)
  10. "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So" (Duke Ellington, lyrics-Mack David)
  11. "The Tennessee Waltz"
  12. "Ever Since The World Ended" (Mose Allison)
  13. "Top Forty" (Mose Allison)
  14. "Josephine"
  15. "Gettin' There" (Mose Allison)
  16. "Ever Since I Stole The Blues" (Mose Allison)
  17. "You Call It Joggin'"
  18. "Big Brother" (Mose Allison)
  19. "The Gettin' Paid Waltz" (Mose Allison)

Songs

Back Country Suite: Blues (aka Young Man's Blues)1:27
Lost Mind3:34
Parchman Farm3:19

References

Allison Wonderland Anthology Wikipedia
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