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Downhearted Blues: Live At The Cookery

by Alberta Hunter

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1.
My Castle's Rockin' 03:26
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2.
The Love I Have For You 04:20
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3.
I've Got Rhythm 03:25
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4.
Downhearted Blues 06:01
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5.
Time Waits For No One 03:20
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6.
I'm Having' A Good Time 03:21
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7.
Tow-Fisted Double Jointed Rough And Ready Man 05:03
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8.
The Dark Town Strutter's Ball 04:17
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9.
Sometimes I'm Happy 03:07
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10.
I've Got A Mind To Ramble 04:49
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11.
Old Fashioned Love 04:15
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12.
You Can't Tell The Difference 03:33
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13.
Remember My Name 03:46
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14.
When Youre Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) 02:55
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15.
Georgia On My Mind 03:21
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16.
Handy Man 04:00
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17.
Never Knew My Kisses 03:10
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18.
You're Welcome To Come Back Home 05:11
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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, 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 songbook

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released August 30, 2011

Gerald Cook-Piano
Jimmy Lewis-Bass

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Born in Memphis 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 performances at The Cookery in NYC for over 6 years before her passing in 1984. ... more

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