Willie Dixon Hidden Charms
Released : 1988
Label : Capitol
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Hidden Charms won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Recording in 1988. Featuring an all-star band of Chess session musicians Dixon had worked with from the 1950s and 1960s mixed with some newer talents like Sugar Blue (on harp). Jazz bassist Red Callender provides classy bass lines that provides tracks like Don’t Mess With The Messer and I Don’t Trust Myself with an old school swinging big band sound.
Tracklist:
1. Blues You Can't Loose (5:47)
2. I Don't Trust Myself (4:24)
3. Jungle Swing (5:27)
4. Don't Mess With The Messer (7:13)
5. Study War No More (4:36)
6. I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love) (3:12)
7. I Cry For You (4:42)
8. Good Advice (5:16)
9. I Do The Job (6:24)
Recorded at Ocean Way Studios, Hollywood.
Personel :
Willie Dixon vocals
Red Callender bass
Lafayette Leake piano
Earl Palmer drums
Cash McCall electric guitar, national steel and harmony vocals
T Bone Burnett dobro
Sugar Blue harmonica
