September 19, 2019

LPH 277 - Black Misery (1929-75)


[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2019; #277]


tracklist:

(1929) Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra - I Got a Misery
(1931) Blanche Calloway + Her Joy Boys - Misery
(1950) Dinah Washington + Teddy Stewart Orchestra - Love Me with Misery
(1950) Little Esther Phillips + Johnny Otis Orchestra - Misery
(1952) Titus Turner + Leroy Kirkland Orchestra - Livin' in Misery
(1957) Chuck Willis - Night of Misery
(1959) Champion Jack Dupree - Misery Blues
(1962) Odetta + Dick Wellstood Trio - Misery Blues
(1962) Professor Longhair - Misery
(1962) Richard Street + The Distants - Save Me from this Misery
(1963) The Dynamics - Misery
(1964) Don Gardner - I'm in Such Misery
(1966) Chuck Berry - Misery
(1966) Darrow Fletcher - My Young Misery
(1967) Al King - My Name is Misery
(1973) Freda Payne - Mother Misery's Favorite Child
(1974) Martha Reeves - Sweet Misery
(1975) Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Love is Sweet Misery

total time: 52'00


Darkened by Lucky.
Cover photo by Gordon Parks, "The Fontenelles at the Poverty Board, Harlem, New York, 1967".
Langston Hughes' last book (1967) has the same title.
Dedicated to the healing force of the universe.

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