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The correct answer is Mose Allison!
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WETA TV, via Wikimedia Commons
Mose Allison, 1975
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…..Having cut his teeth on the music of Louis Jordan, Nat “King” Cole, Louis Armstrong, and Fats Waller, Mississippi-born Mose Allison (1927-2016) was always seen as being a “beyond category” artist, as evidenced by the eclectic admirers who have recorded his music, including the Who (“Young Man Blues”), Leon Russell (“I’m Smashed”), and Bonnie Raitt (“Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy”). He himself admitted the challenges of being a mostly jazz and blues artist admired by rock musicians, saying in a 1990 interview with Goldmine magazine that “there’s a lot of places I don’t work because they’re confused about what I do.”
…..While his entire discography is filled with gems worthy of discovery, Allison’s essential albums – more than two dozen as a leader – include Back Country Suite (1957), Young Man Mose (1958) , I Don’t Worry About a Thing (1962), The Word from Mose (1964), and Your Mind is on Vacation (1976).
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Listen to the 1959 recording of Mose Allison performing the Willie Dixon composition “The Seventh Son” [Universal Music Group]
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Listen to the 1976 recording of Mose Allison performing his composition “Your Mind is on Vacation” [Rhino/Atlantic]
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Watch a 2005 film of Mose Allison performing his composition “Everybody Cryin’ Mercy”
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.Click here to visit Mose Allison’s Wikipedia page
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