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The Mose Allison Home Page
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Just turned 70, Mose Allison opens up about blues and jazz, growing up in Mississippi, record companies and publishers, the Who recording his songs, the paucity of original voices, working with Jerry Wexler and Nusuhi Ertegun, New York radio stations, humiliation as impetus, and his long search for the original bohog grind.
"If you describe on a map a circle with its center at Moorhead, Mississippi, the place where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog, lying within a hundred-mile radius are not only Como and Hernando, but also Red Banks, Helena, Lyon, Leland, Rolling Fork, Corinth, Ruleville, Greenville, Indianola, Bentonia, Macon, Eden Station, West Point, Tupelo, Tippo, Scott, Shelby, Meridian, Lake Cormorant, Houston, Belzoni, Bolton, Tunica, Yazoo City, Lambert, Vance, Burdett, and Clarksdale, whence come Gus Cannon, Roosevelt Sykes, Son House, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Fat Man Morrison, Charlie Patton, B.B. King, Albert King, Skip James, Bo Diddley, Emma Williams, Howlin’ Wolf, Elvis Presley, Mose Allison, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Brown, Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Booker T. Washington White, Otis Spann, Bo Carter, James Cotton, Tommy McClennan, Jasper Love, Sunnyland Slim, Brother John Sellers, and John Lee Hooker. Also within this radius are Greenwood, where Furry Lewis was born, and Grenada, where John Hurt died."
Last November 11, Mose Allison, the composer-pianist-singer, turned 70. It seemed a proper time to look in on him and see how life as a senior citizen is for the man once called — 40 years ago in an album title — Young Man Mose. I found out there are problems. One problem is, he’s not acting his age. He’s running and exercising, playing international gigs, has a new album and is still on the lookout for tunes. Another problem, he’s still, in his phrase, "the man without a category." Is he a jazz player? Yes. Is he a blues man? Yes. "To me," Allison said, "it all comes from the same place."
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