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...blues is supposed to follow the traditional twelve-bar structure, but as often as not uses eleven or 13 bars. Despite its metric uncertainty, it is a two-beat, shuffling kind of music that seems to have been drilled into the central nervous systems of Muddy and his six sidemen...
Ringo's second effort-effort seems the most appropriate word-a country record entitled Beaucoups of Blues, is a vast improvement. The songs (none of them written by Ringo himself) are pretty good, the arrangements are tight, and the Nashville sidemen are, at the worst, competent. It's just that you can't help wishing all the time that Ringo would shut up. (The great rock voice that Ringo had on the early albums, on songs like "Honey Don't" and "Boys," seems to have disappeared with his tonsillectomy...
Corkscrew Grin. Ringo's choice of mentor and producer for his Nashville sessions was expert: Steel Guitarist Pete Drake, who not only lined up 13 of the best Nashville sidemen in town, but provided Ringo with a well-varied dozen of the best new songs from his own publishing company (Window Music). One of them, Chuck Howard's porch-swinging serenade, I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way, has the stamp of a country classic, and Loser's Lounge is a toe-tapper that even city slickers should find a winner...
...what turned out to be her final recording session. It was no easy matter: the Depression had left Columbia virtually bankrupt. All the money that Hammond could raise for the session was $150 for Bessie ($37.50 for each of the four sides she cut), and $150 split among such sidemen as Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden and Chu Berry. Still, the session meant a lot to Bessie, and she showed it by the way she tore into Down in the Dumps...
...University-can play whatever Herman's arrangers ask. Woody returns the favor by giving them a remarkable measure of freedom. The group's spontaneity-perhaps the strongest remaining link to Herman's jazz past-attests to that. So does the individual success of such former Herman sidemen as Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Shorty Rogers, Pete Candoli and Neal Hefti. Says Drummer Jake Hanna. an ex-Herd man: "Woody goes along with the wav the band feels, instead of sticking strictly to the book. If a man's really blowin'. Woody doesn't stop...