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Takes to the Hills

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Released
  
1961

Artist
  
Mose Allison

Producer
  
Teo Macero

Genres
  
Jazz, Blues

Length
  
37:31

Release date
  
1961

Label
  
PoppyDisc

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Recorded
  
December 21, 1959 - January 11, 1960; June 28 - September 9, 1960; May 16, 1961 New York

Takes to the Hills (1961)
  
I Don't Worry About a Thing (1962)

Similar
  
Mose Allison albums, Jazz albums

This album was re-issued in 1966 as V-8 Ford Blues.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Mose Allison except as indicated

  1. "V-8 Ford Blues" (Willie Love) - 2:11
  2. "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sidney Clare, Sam H. Stept) - 1:26
  3. "Baby, Please Don't Go" (Big Joe Williams) - 2:32
  4. "Hey, Good Lookin'" (Hank Williams) - 1:41
  5. "I Love the Life I Live" (Willie Dixon) - 2:22
  6. "I Ain't Got Nobody" (Roger Graham, Spencer Williams) - 1:51
  7. "Back on the Corner" - 1:54
  8. "Life Is Suicide" (Percy Mayfield) - 2:44
  9. "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) - 1:55
  10. "Ask Me Nice" - 2:32
  11. "You're a Sweetheart" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:11
  12. "Mad with You" (Lightnin' Hopkins) - 2:10

Personnel

Tracks 3 and 9 previously released on Transfiguration of Hiram Brown (recorded December 21, 1959 - January 11, 1960):

  • Mose Allison - piano, vocals
  • Addison Farmer - bass
  • Jerry Segal - drums

    • Tracks 5, 6, 11, and 12 previously released on I Love the Life I Live (recorded June 30, 1960):

  • Mose Allison - piano, vocals
  • Henry Grimes - bass
  • Paul Motian - drums

    • Tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, and 10 (recorded May 16, 1961):

  • Mose Allison - piano, vocals
  • Aaron Bell - bass
  • Osie Johnson - drums

    • Songs

    1V8 Ford Blues2:17
    2Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone1:32
    3Baby - Please Don't Go2:38

    References

    Takes to the Hills Wikipedia
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