Catalogue: JASCD 376
Price Code: B
Release Date: 01/10/2000
Bar Code: 604988 03762 3
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Walter BROWN w. Jay McShannForget Your Troubles And Jump Your Blues Away!
"Perhaps the more persuasive of carollers of the
exploits of wastrels, wanderers and woes of uncontrolled drunkards and illicit
lovers." U.S. jazz periodical Metronome used these words in 1945 to describe
singer Walter Brown who had left a secure job as chief band vocalist with the
Jay McShann Orchestra to strike out on his own with a recording contract for
KING Record's QUEEN subsidiary. With many of his blues having already borne such
salty titles as "'Fore Day Rider", "Hootie's Ignorant Oil" and "Cryin' Won't
Make Me Stay", while soon to include "Sloppy Drunk", "Gonna Play With Your
Woman" and "Let's Love Awhile", the description by a mainstream jazz publication
would appear to have been fairly perceptive, particularly in view of the fact
that within a dozen years, Walter would be dead, a victim of those same rough
and rowdy ways.
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