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Blues on Broadway

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Released
  
1989

Producer
  
Ralph Jungheim

Artist
  
Dennis Brown

Label
  
Fantasy Records

Length
  
58:12

Blues on Broadway (1989)
  
Fine and Mellow (1991)

Release date
  
1989

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
June 12–13, 1989, at RCA Studio C, New York

You Don't Know Me (1978)
  
Blues on Broadway (1989)

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female

Similar
  
Dennis Brown albums, Jazz albums

Blues on Broadway is an album by Ruth Brown, released in 1989 through Fantasy Records. The album earned Brown a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out" - 5:39
  2. "Good Morning Heartache" - 5:59
  3. "If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It" - 5:26
  4. "Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do" - 9:25
  5. "St. Louis Blues" - 9:35
  6. "Am I Blue" - 5:58
  7. "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" - 5:54
  8. "I Don't Break Dance" - 5:23 (bonus track on CD)
  9. "Come Sunday" - 5:25 (bonus track on CD)

Personnel

  • Ruth Brown - vocals
  • Spanky Davis - trumpet
  • Hank Crawford - alto saxophone (except on 2,5,7,8)
  • Red Holloway - tenor saxophone
  • Britt Woodman - trombone
  • Bobby Forrester - leader, piano, Hammond B-3 organ
  • Rodney Jones - guitar, banjo
  • Al McKibbon - acoustic bass
  • Grady Tate - drums
  • George Horn - mastering
  • Songs

    1Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out5:39
    2Good Morning Heartache5:59
    3If I Can't Sell It - I'll Keep Sittin' on It5:27

    References

    Blues on Broadway Wikipedia