Biography

With a laconic Southern drawl, nimble jazz piano style, and sardonic, bluesy songs, Mose Allison combines blues and jazz in a unique, distinctive style. Though he's best known for singing darkly humorous songs like "Your Mind Is on Vacation," he's just as talented on the piano, having released many all-instrumental albums and played alongside cool jazz giants such as Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan. Allison's work has proved as influential to rockers as to jazz musicians, with the Clash, the Who, Van Morrison, and others covering his material.

Top Tracks

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• Ain't You A Mess

• Ask Me Nice

• Baby Please Don't Go

• Back Country Suite For Piano, Bass And Drums: Blues

• Back Country Suite: Blues (aka Young Man's Blues)

• Back On The Corner

• Barefoot-dirt Road

• Blueberry Hill

• Blues

• Certified Senior Citizen

• Crush

• 'deed I Do

• Devil In The Cane Field

• Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me

• Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me

• Don't Get Around Much Anymore

• Ever Since The World Ended

• Everybody Is Cryin' Mercy

• Everybody Thinks You're An Angel

• Eyesight To The Blind

• Fool's Paradise

• Gimcracks And Gewgaws

• Groovin' High

• Hello There, Universe

• Hey, Good Lookin'

• How Does It Feel? (to Be Good Looking)

• I Ain't Got Nobody

• I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues

• I Don't Worry About A Thing

• I Live The Life Of Love

• I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love

• I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out

• If You Live

• If You're Goin' To The City

• I'm Not Talking

• I'm The Wild Man

• It Didn't Turn Out That Way

• Look Here

• Lost Mind

• Mad With You

• Middle Class White Boy

• Monsters Of The Id

• My Backyard

• My Brain

• New Parchman

• Old Man Blues

• Once In A While

• One Of These Days

• One Room Country Shack

• Parchman Farm

• Seventh Son

• Smashed

• Stop This World

• Tell Me Something

• That's All Right

• That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch

• That's Your Red Wagon

• The Earth Wants You

• The Gettin' Paid Waltz

• The Minstrels

• The Molecular Structure

• The Seventh Son

• The Tennessee Waltz

• This New Situation

• Top Forty

• Train

• Trouble In Mind

• V-8 Ford Blues

• Western Man

• What Do You Do After You Ruin Your Life

• What's With You

• What's Your Movie

• Wild Man On The Loose

• Yardbird Suite

• You Are My Sunshine

• You Call It Joggin'

• You Can Count On Me To Do My Part

• You Won't Let Me Go

• Young Man's Blues

• Your Mind Is On Vacation

• Your Molecular Structure

• Your Red Wagon

Discography

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• The Way of the World

  Anti

  2010

• The Mose Chronicles: Live in London, Vol. 2

  Blue Note

  2002

• The Mose Chronicles: Live in London, Vol. 1

  Blue Note

  2001

• Gimcracks and Gewgaws

  Blue Note

  1997

• Pure Mose

  32 Jazz

  1996