Alberta Hunter - Downhearted Blues [New CD]

Description: Alberta Hunter - Downhearted Blues [New CD] Artist: Alberta Hunter Title: Downhearted Blues Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2011 Label: Rockbeat Records UPC: 089353302429 Genre: Jazz Vocals Album Tracks1. My Castle's Rockin'2. The Love I Have for You3. I Got Rhythm4. Downhearted Blues5. Time Waits for No One6. I'm Havin' a Good Time7. Two-Fisted Double-Jointed Rough and Ready Man8. The Dark Town Strutter's Ball9. Sometimes I'm Happy10. I've Got a Mind to Ramble11. Old Fashioned Love12. You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark13. Remember My Name14. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)15. Georgia on My Mind16. Handy Man17. Never Knew My Kisses18. You're Welcome to Come Back Home Born in 1895, and having been an early blues innovator in the 1920s, Alberta Hunter became a living link to the jazz-age and stars like Bessie Smith, Paul Robeson and Ma Rainey. In the late '50s she started a second career as a nurse, and mostly retired from music, but by the mid-70s was lured back to live performance. In 1981, at age 85, she recorded this live set at a New York cabaret called The Cookery. Hunter was still sharp-as-a-tack; her sassy stage patter, interactions with the band and audience, and vocalizing are filled with percussive energy, knowing phrasings and deep experience and wisdom. Singing with accompaniment from Gerald Cook (piano, arrangements) and Jimmy Lewis (bass), Hunter covers standards that she wrote (and as she noted, was still collecting royalties on) as well as a selection of standards from other authors of the great American songbookCopyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Location: Shepherdsville, Kentucky

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