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Poet of the Blues - Percy Mayfield
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Track Listing
  1. Please Send Me Someone to Love
  2. Prayin' for Your Return
  3. Strange Things Happening
  4. Life Is Suicide
  5. What a Fool I Was
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  1. Please Send Me Someone to Love
  2. Prayin' for Your Return
  3. Strange Things Happening
  4. Life Is Suicide
  5. What a Fool I Was
  6. Lost Love (Baby, Please Come Back to Me)
  7. Nightless Lover
  8. Advice (For Men Only)
  9. Cry Baby
  10. Lost Mind
  11. I Dare You, Baby
  12. Hopeless
  13. The Hunt Is On
  14. The River's Invitation
  15. The Big Question
  16. Wasted Dream
  17. Louisiana
  18. The Bachelor Blues
  19. Get Away Back
  20. Memory Pain
  21. Loose Lips
  22. You Don't Exist No More
  23. Nightmare
  24. Baby, You're Rich
  25. My Heart Is Cryin'
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The insightful songwriting skills of this West Coaster were matched by his wry, plaintive vocal delivery (Mayfield was usually his own best interpreter). The 25 sides here date from his hit-laden 1950-1954 stay at Art Rupe's Specialty logo and include his universal lament "Please Send Me Someone to Love," and the resolutely downbeat "Strange Things Happening" and "Lost Love," and an ironic "The River's Invitation." Saxman Maxwell Davis led the horn-powered combos providing sympathetic support behind Mayfield. ~ Bill Dahl, ...

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Poet of the Blues 1992, Specialty Records

UPC: 022211700128

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