Floyd McDaniel & The Blues Swingers - Let Your Hair Down!

Size: 155.5 MB
Time: 66:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Chicago Blues, Jump Blues
Art: Full

01. Raggedy Ride (3:05)
02. Blue Mood (2:52)
03. Mary Jo (3:05)
04. Strange Things Happening (3:15)
05. It Don't Mean A Thing (4:02)
06. I Want A Little Girl (4:33)
07. St. Louis Blues (5:21)
08. God Bless the Child (5:21)
09. Sent For You Yesterday (3:28)
10. R.M. Blues (3:17)
11. Christopher Columbus (4:35)
12. West Side Baby (7:17)
13. Beale Street Baby (3:45)
14. Let Your Hair Down (2:48)
15. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (4:02)
16. Why Life's Got To Be This Way (2:29)
17. Caldonia (2:48)

Floyd McDaniel was 78 when, in 1994, he recorded Let Your Hair Down! for the Chicago-based Delmark. Through the years, the singer/guitarist had been the type of artist who had one foot in pre-bebop jazz and one in urban blues--and that approach continues to serve him nicely on this CD. McDaniel's credentials as a jump blues shouter are illustrated by inspired versions of Louis Jordan's "Caldonia," T-Bone Walker's "Blue Mood" and Roy Milton's "R.M. Blues," while his talents as a jazz singer are evident on Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean That Thing" and Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child." On this album, McDaniel leads a cohesive, swinging octet known as the Blues Swingers, which consists of a hard-swinging rhythm section and four horn players, including trumpeter Mike McLaughlin, tenor saxophonist Dave Clark, alto saxophonist Paul Mundy and baritone saxophonist/clarinetist Martin "Van" Kelly. Let Your Hair Down! would be among McDaniel's last recordings; the veteran artist died the following year. ~Alex Henderson

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