Al Smith - Hear My Blues (1959) {Prestige–Bluesville OBCCD-514-2 rel 1993}
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© 1959, 1993 Prestige / Bluesville / Fantasy | OBCCD-514-2
Blues / Jazz / Soul Blues / West Coast Blues
As a rule, people who appreciate the late Jimmy Witherspoon have a very favorable reaction to Al Smith – that is, if they get a chance to hear him. Neither of the two albums that Smith provided for Bluesville (Hear My Blues in 1959 and Midnight Special in 1960) are well-known. While Witherspoon was a big name in the blues world, Smith was a gospel singer who dabbled in secular music. But when Smith did venture outside the gospel realm, his approach was quite comparable to Witherspoon's – like Witherspoon, he favored a jazz-influenced approach to blues and R&B.
Smith, in fact, is backed by hard-swinging jazz musicians on Midnight Special, including tenor titan Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, organist Shirley Scott, bassist Wendell Marshall, and drummer Arthur Edgehill. Davis and Scott were both well aware of the power of the blues, and they were perfect for a jazz-minded bluesman like Smith – who soars on original material as well as inspired, passionate performances of the Ray Charles hit "Night Time Is the Right Time" and the sentimental Johnny Ace ballad "Pledging My Love." Was Smith a blues purist? Absolutely not. Although some of the tracks have a 12-bar blues format (including the gutsy "I've Got the Right Kind of Lovin'"), others are really R&B. "Pledging My Love," for example, is a classic '50s R&B ballad – and there's certainly nothing wrong with that. Besides, Witherspoon was never a blues purist either; although he was primarily a blues singer, the versatile Witherspoon also recorded his share of R&B and got into some jazz-oriented torch singing as well. Both of Smith's Bluesville albums are well worth owning, but if you had to pick one of the two, Hear My Blues would the best starting point.
Musicians
Vocals Al Smith
Saxophone Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Organ Shirley Scott
Bass Wendell Marshall
Drums Arthur Edghill
Tracks
01 Night Time Is The Right Time 04:19
02 Pledging My Love 02:30
03 I've Got A Girl 04:34
04 I'll Be Alright 03:57
05 Come On, Pretty Baby 02:57
06 Tears In My Eyes 06:01
07 Never Let Me Go 05:13
08 I've Got The Right Kind Of Lovin' 03:25
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EAC extraction logfile from 9. November 2010, 9:55
Al Smith / Hear My Blues
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1 | 0:00.00 | 4:19.22 | 0 | 19446
2 | 4:19.22 | 2:30.28 | 19447 | 30724
3 | 6:49.50 | 4:34.15 | 30725 | 51289
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7 | 24:17.42 | 5:13.18 | 109317 | 132809
8 | 29:30.60 | 3:23.67 | 132810 | 148101
Track 1
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EAC extraction logfile from 9. November 2010, 9:55
Al Smith / Hear My Blues
Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-S203N Adapter: 0 ID: 2
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%x" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%v" -T "ALBUM ARTIST=%v" -T "COMMENT=EAC V0.99 pb5, Secure Mode, Test & Copy, AccurateRip,
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:19.22 | 0 | 19446
2 | 4:19.22 | 2:30.28 | 19447 | 30724
3 | 6:49.50 | 4:34.15 | 30725 | 51289
4 | 11:23.65 | 3:54.17 | 51290 | 68856
5 | 15:18.07 | 2:58.00 | 68857 | 82206
6 | 18:16.07 | 6:01.35 | 82207 | 109316
7 | 24:17.42 | 5:13.18 | 109317 | 132809
8 | 29:30.60 | 3:23.67 | 132810 | 148101
Track 1
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