Name: Sings the Blues Sessions
Brand: Ace (Label)
SKU: 160799
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Sings the Blues Sessions

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Album: Sings the Blues Sessions
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Your Cheatin' Heart
2)	Endless Sleep
3)	She Moves Me
4)	Card Playing Blues
5)	Boogie Woogie Woman
6)	Please Hurry Home
7)	Don't Have to Cry
8)	Jelly Jelly Blues
9)	Riding Blues
10)	Blues Came Falling Down
11)	Sad Life Blues
12)	Cain River Blues
13)	Playful Baby
14)	When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer - (previously unreleased)
15)	Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
16)	Story from My Heart & Soul
17)	You Gotta Crawl Before You Walk
18)	I Need Somebody
19)	Telephone Blues - (previously unreleased)
20)	Your Cheatin' Heart
21)	Ain't Nobody's Business, Pt. 1
22)	Ain't Nobody's Business, Pt. 2
23)	Endless Sleep - (previously unreleased)
24)	How Long Blues - (previously unreleased)
25)	When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer - (previously unreleased)
26)	Wind Is Blowin', The - (previously unreleased)

Album: Sings the Blues Sessions
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Your Cheatin' Heart
2)	Endless Sleep
3)	She Moves Me
4)	Card Playing Blues
5)	Boogie Woogie Woman
6)	Please Hurry Home
7)	Don't Have to Cry
8)	Jelly Jelly Blues
9)	Riding Blues
10)	Blues Came Falling Down
11)	Sad Life Blues
12)	Cain River Blues
13)	Playful Baby
14)	When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer - (previously unreleased)
15)	Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
16)	Story from My Heart & Soul
17)	You Gotta Crawl Before You Walk
18)	I Need Somebody
19)	Telephone Blues - (previously unreleased)
20)	Your Cheatin' Heart
21)	Ain't Nobody's Business, Pt. 1
22)	Ain't Nobody's Business, Pt. 2
23)	Endless Sleep - (previously unreleased)
24)	How Long Blues - (previously unreleased)
25)	When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer - (previously unreleased)
26)	Wind Is Blowin', The - (previously unreleased)

Performer Notes

Includes 7 unreleased tracks.
Recorded in 1960.
Liner Note Author: Dave Penny.
The original Sings the Blues LP, recorded by Witherspoon for Crown in 1960, ended up being one of those discographers' nightmares. Two different versions of the LP, Crown CST 215 and Crown 215 X, were released, each of them with songs not on the other, and its year of release has been listed incorrectly by major record guides. Sings the Blues Sessions is something of an expanded CD version of the album(s), on which Ace has taken the opportunity to clear up this unpleasantness by putting all 13 songs that appeared on the two versions of the LP together. Not only that, they've effectively doubled the length of the whole shebang by adding 13 bonus titles that were recorded for Modern around the same time, half a dozen of them previously unissued. As for the material that appeared on the original Sings the Blues LPs, it's a pretty standard easygoing, pleasant Witherspoon small-combo blues session with a tinge of jazz. The program's devoted to covers of tunes by B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Billy Wright, Billy Eckstine, Joe Turner, Leroy Carr, and others; Witherspoon's own "Cain River Blues" is the only original. The bonus tracks are mostly in the same mood, but are dotted with some less standard items, particularly a two-part version of "Ain't Nobody's Business" with strings, an almost rock & roll cover of Jody Reynolds' late-'50s death-rock hit "Endless Sleep," and a cover of Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart." ~ Richie Unterberger