Jazz and blues pianist/vocalist/composer Mose Allison, who has been described as one of the finest songwriters of 20th century blues, will have his 1978 live recording released this upcoming Record Store Day, November 25th, 2022 via Liberation Hall Records.

Featuring Allison playing his usual repertoire, here he is in a trio with bassist Tom Rutley (bass) and drummer Jerry Granelli (drums). Since Allison only recorded one album during the years 1973 to 1981, this well-recorded live set is quite valuable and now, thanks to RSD and Liberation Hall, is soon to be more widely embraced (as well it should be too!).

Most of the material is fairly familiar, but the singer’s spirited delivery and interplay with the audience make this recording a real gem. It ain’t about technology, it’s about these transcendent versions of Allison classics performed with sidemen who get it, for people who dig it - the real deal.

1) Lost Mind
2) Wildman on the Loose
3) Your Molecular Structure
4) It Feels So Good
5) Swingin’ Machine
6) You Can Count on Me to My Part
7) I Live the Life I Love
8) If You’re Going Up to the City
9) Hey Good Lookin’
10) Meet Me at No Special Place
11 Seventh Son
12) Your Mind Is on Vacation
13) Wildman/Show Closer

Recorded Live March 26, 1978 at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Springs, MD, this quite wondrous live album opens on the playfully perky Lost Mind and the gently fervent Wildman on the Loose and they are backed by the rhythmically free flowing duo of Your Molecular Structure and It Feels So Good, the melodious Swingin’ Machine, and then come both the foot tapper You Can Count on Me to My Part and the mid-tempo rocker I Live the Life I Love.

Mississippi-born pianist-singer-songwriter Mose Allison, who was also one of the most influential figures in jazz and modern blues, continues onward with the key-burning If You’re Going Up to the City and the finger-snapper Hey Good Lookin’ and follows those up with the low slung Meet Me at No Special Place and the hard-hitting Seventh Son, the live recording rounding out on the jaunty lightheartedness within Your Mind Is on Vacation, coming to a close on the cadenced Wildman/Show Closer.

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