Mose Allison: The Tennessee Waltz
Track
The Tennessee Waltz
Artist
Mose Allison (vocals, piano)
CD
Middle Class White Boy (Collectables 6535)
Musicians:
Mose Allison (vocals, piano),
Joe Farrell (tenor sax), Putter Smith (bass), John Dentz (drums)
.Composed by Pee Wee King & Redd Stewart
.Recorded: Los Angeles, February 2-3, 1982
Rating: 89/100 (learn more)
So what's a super-hip, former dyed-in-the-cotton Mississippi peckerwood doing singing about a state to his north (pardon the word) whose capital is the hipster's Heart of Darkness (read: capital of country music)? First, this ain't no waltz, y'all, but funky 4/4. (Pronounced: foe/foe.) Plus it's a powerful distance from, with all due respect, Miss Patti Page. Still, the storyline's the same: at dance, introduce old friend to milady; while they waltz, "friend" steals her heart away. Left high & dry, Mose conjures some piquant backroom piano licks, but his gal stays lost. Moral: when the band plays "The Volunteer State Waltz," volunteer yo' gal to nobody, friend nor foe.
Reviewer: Alan Kurtz
Tags: 1980s jazz · jazz vocals · the tennessee waltz
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