{"id":5069,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/mose-allison-live-at-scullers\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"mose-allison-live-at-scullers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=5069","title":{"rendered":"Mose Allison Live at Scullers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

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Mose Allison
Live at Scullers<\/font><\/font>
Boston \u0096 October 22, 2005<\/font>
by Matthew S. Robinson<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/strong>There were few better places to be for the weekend of the famed Head of the Charles Regatta than the award-winning Scullers Jazz Club (www.scullerjazz.com<\/a>), overlooking the Charles River where said race takes place while listening to the contemporary timelessness of Mississippi sage Mose Allison. <\/p>\n

From the swagger of ‘Fools Paradise’ to the bassy bounce of ‘Look What You Made Me Do,’ Allison worked his dipping baritone and firmly tinkling fingers through a near nonstop jukebox of hip and insightful tunes, showing time and again that there is a heckuvalot more to write about than just love. In addition to the Randy Newman-esque ‘Ever Since the<\/p>\n

World Ended’ and Gov. Jimmy Davis’ ‘You Are My Sunshine,’ Allison also offered a paced run through John Loudermilk’s ‘You Call It Jogging’ and a cool and breezy stroll around George Perlman’s ‘Indian Summer.’ ‘Everybody’s Crying Mercy’ was as pertinent as ever and<\/p>\n

‘Your Molecular Structure’ may have been all the more appropriate considering that MIT was an oarstroke away. In any case, Allison offered something for everyone in his multi-generational audience. In fact, despite the fact that his rhythm section was made up of what the septugenarian Southern gentleman might call ‘yung’uns,’ this cleverly self-proclaimed ‘Certified Senior Citizen’ left them half a beat behind time after time, showing that he has not lost a lick of timing over the course of his long and storied career. <\/p>\n

C. 2005 M. S. Robinson ARR<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

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