Live at The Lion's Share, July 12, 1970 (Remastered) [CD]

Mose Allison - Live at The Lion's Share, July 12, 1970 (Remastered) [CD]

True story: about ten years ago we contacted the Mose Allison estate because we had stumbled on a very good recording of a 1966 gig at Club 47 in Boston, and we wanted to release it with the estate’s blessing. But, as these things often do, the discussions never came to fruition, and we moved on, but we remained convinced that Mose was definitely an artist best experienced live. Well, earlier this year we were contacted by Mose’s daughter Amy and the co-producer of this set, Pat Thomas, with a new tape that had surfaced, a 17-track, 70-minute recording of a July 12, 1970 show at the Marin County club The Lion’s Share that absolutely blew away our earlier, 1966 candidate for release, both with respect to fidelity and performance. This just might be the definitive live Mose Allison document.

The set captures Mose with his preferred Bay Area rhythm section of Clyde Flowers on bass and Lee Charlton on drums, the same team that appeared on 1972's live classic Mose in Your Ear. Mose never thought this date would be released as a live recording, so you're getting him at his freest, spryest, and slyest, displaying that impossibly effortless combination of wildly inventive piano riffing, brilliantly sophisticated songwriting, and offhand, nonchalant swagger that only he could pull off. The set includes three sets of newly commissioned liner notes and has been remastered by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision.

Track Listing:
1. You Won’t Let Me Go
2. War Horse
3. Lost Mind
4. Wild Man on the Loose
5. Now You See It
6. Fool’s Paradise
7. Seventh Son
8. Do Nothin’ Til You Hear from Me
9. You Can Count on Me to Do My Part
10. I Love the Life I Live
11. Powerhouse
12. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
13. City Home
14. If You’re Going to the City
15. Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues
16. Swingin’ Machine
17. Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy