Mose Allison: Your Mind Is on Vacation
Track
Your Mind Is On Vacation
Artist
Mose Allison (vocals, piano)
CD
I Don't Worry About A Thing (Rhino R2-71417)
Musicians:
Mose Allison (vocals, piano), Addison Farmer (bass), Osie Johnson (drums).
Composed by Mose Allison & Audre Mae
.Recorded: New York, March 15, 1962
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
In the culture-clash of jazz and psychiatry, shrinks have gotten short shrift. Mose Allison, however, plays Devil's advocate, enacting the role of long-suffering clinician who's endured more bellyaching than even the highly compensated can tolerate. "You're sittin' there yakkin' in my face," declares Dr. Allison at wit's end. "I guess I'm gonna have to put you in your place." Technically called counter-resistance, this can seriously impair the doctor-patient relationship. But when delivered with Mose Allison's Laid-back Sage of the Mississippi Delta aplomb and set to his funky down-home piano, such in-your-face attitude is delectably therapeutic.
Reviewer: Alan Kurtz
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