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MIGHTY MO RODGERS BLUES IS MY WAILIN’ WALL
Released:1999
Audio CD 19 Jan 2000
Label: Victor
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Maurice Rodgers, "Mighty Mo", was born in 1942 in Chicago, Indiana but actually studied classical piano as a lad. Of course growing up in the 60s meant you had to be affected by the brilliant soul music coming out of Memphis and soon Mighty Mo started his own soul band the Rocketeers while in high school but by college started the Maurice Rodgers Combo. He quit college and headed to Los Angeles and started performing, recording as a session player where he gigged with T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Jimmy Reed, and many others. He played Farfasa organ on Brenton Wood's 1967 hit "Gimme Little Sign". He also served as a producer, most notably on Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee's classic 1973 A & M record "Sonny And Brownie".He selected the material, which featured three of his own compositions, rounded up John Mayall, Arlo Guthrie, John Hammond, Michael Franks, Sugarcane Harris and others as backing musicians. He gave up music for awhile heading to Cal State Northridge where he earned a degree in philosophy while simultaneously working as a staff songwriter for Chappell Publishing and Motown. He’s completing a Masters degree in Humanities with an astonishing thesis, "Blues as Metaphysical Music (Its Musicality and Ontological Underpinnings)", and this can be felt on his first album released under his own name in 1999, "Blues Is My Wailin' Wall" on Blue Thumb.
Line Up: Mighty Mo Rodgers - Vocals, Accordion, Piano, Hammond B-3 Organ, Keyboards,
Kalimba Darrell Dunmore - Guitar,Dobro,Harmonica
Chris Walsh,Tim Pierce,Jim Gibson - Guitar
Vic Shoemaker - Harmonica
Kenny Walker, Harold Bennett - Tenor Saxophone
David L. Woodford - Saxophone
Ray Smith - Trumpet
Steve F'dor - Piano
Michael Murphy - Hammond B-3 Organ
Albie Burks - Bass
Burleigh Drummond,
Clarence Harris - Drums
Rasheed Ali,George James - Percussion
Fruity Moon,Bill Nesbitt - spoken word,Sounds Of Africa
Mary Harris Drummond,
Brie Darling, Breta Troyer - Background Vocals
1 Blues Is My Wailin' Wall 3:19
2 Took Away the Drum 4:18
3 Heaven's Got the Blues 4:14
4 No Regrets 4:56
5 Tuskegee Blues 2:25
6 No Dough 2:18
7 The Kennedy Song 3:37
8 (Bring Back) Sweet Soul Music 5:00
9 Willie B. and Me 3:34
10 Gone Fishin' 4:20
11 Shame! 5:46
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