Jimmy McCracklin - The Mercury Recordings

Album: The Mercury Recordings
Size: 78,0 MB
Time: 33:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1992
Styles: Blues/R&B
Art: Full

1. The Wobble (2:19)
2. Georgia Slop (2:24)
3. Hitched (2:52)
4. No One To Love Me (2:28)
5. (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You (2:21)
6. By Myself (2:43)
7. Doomed Lover (2:48)
8. With Your Love (2:20)
9. Let's Do It (The Chicken Scratch) (2:42)
10. The Bridge (2:19)
11. What's That, Pt. 1 (2:41)
12. What's That, Pt. 2 (2:58)
13. Folsom Prison Blues (2:31)

Jimmy McCracklin's liaison with Mercury was relatively brief, from late 1958 to the fall of 1960, and Bear Family has only managed to locate 13 songs for this CD. But it's a rewarding chapter in the pianist's endlessly nomadic recording career, featuring his original dance tunes "Georgia Slop" and "Let's Do It (The Chicken Scratch)," a New Orleans-cut cover of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," and some smoothly arranged (by Clyde Otis, Brook Benton's collaborator) pop/R&B outings that suggest Mercury had big plans for McCracklin that never quite panned out. /Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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