Mose Allison RIP

Tarpon

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Bloody hell - they're coming (going) in waves. RIP Mose.

 

Cowfold Seagull

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• Nov 15, 2016

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Not a name I'm familiar with.

RIP though.

 

Hiney

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Another one goes

RIP

 

The Albion Roar

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• Nov 15, 2016

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Well, a young man ain't got nothing in the world these days...

 

Boys 9d

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• Nov 15, 2016

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The song that first brought him to mass attention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aJjUDD1o2M

 

Cowfold Seagull

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Cowfold Seagull said:

Not a name I'm familiar with.

RIP though.

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& he was 89!

 

Tarpon

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Gwylan

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Cowfold Seagull said:

& he was 89!

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Yeah, he was someone I thought had left us some time ago

 

catfish

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• Nov 15, 2016

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Another superb musician bites the dust. RIP.

 

Perfidious Albion

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• Nov 16, 2016

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Another great one gone... that is sad ...... As a young man I adored John Mayall's " Parchman Farm" .. It was a lot later I learned that it was Mose who wrote it plus a catalogue of songs too many to count.
The man was Quality with a capital Q . At least we have recordings.