mose allison tribute

Various Artists - If You’re Going to the City: A Tribute to Mose Allison (from the album If You’re Going to the City: A Tribute to Mose Allison available on Concord Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Mose Allison is hip innovator and most musicans know it. Laid-back vocals over loose piano rambles defined its style as the sound created a Jazz Blues genre, influencing Jimi Hendrix to Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt and Leon Russell to The Pixies. If You’re Going to the City: A Tribute to Mose Allison is a big nod to the man behind the piano keys,  a collection hosting a diverse assembly of players such as Loudon Wainright III, Dave and Phil Alvin, Iggy Pop and Frank Black, Bonnie Raitt, Chrissie Hynde and many. Musicians as fans pay homage to Mose Allison with a compilation of songs that recognizes his contribution to musical coolness. Taj Mahal kicks off If You’re Going to the City: A Tribute to Mose Allison with a straight-ahead cover of “Your Mind is on Vacation” while Robbie Fulks captures Allison’s subtle humor on a tripped out take on “My Brain”.
 
The ladies step up and knock it out of the park with their tributes. Fiona Apple, joined by The Tippo Allstars, delivers a bouncy “Your Molecular Structure”, Chrissie Hyndes’ “Stop This World”, with its moody Hammond organ becomes a smokey cabaret lounge cut while Bonnie Raitt’s live version of “Everybody Crying Mercy” plays with heavy gospel overtones and Allison’s daughter, Amy, teams with Elvis Costello on the laid-back “Monsters of the Id”. “Wild Man on the Loose” is a wild rocker courtesy of Dave and Phil Alvin and Frank Black’s “Numbers on Paper” like the original version from Mose is slow and heavy.   A tribute record where Indie Rockers rub elbows with old punks, Blues players, and Folkies certainly speaks to the man’s influence, with If You’re Going to the City: A Tribute to Mose Allison a neighborhood where everyone feels comfortable, and tracks that will expand on the legacy of Mose Allison.  (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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