Floyd Cramer - Hello Blues (1960)
Hello Friends and Hello Blues!
Pour that bourbon neat and smoke 'em if you got 'em because tonight you're in for a real treat featuring the "slip note" piano stylings of the late, great Floyd Cramer.
Cramer-- one of the progenitors of what became known as the "Nashville Sound"-- tickles the ivories on this very laid-back and easy-going country-blues LP. The highlights include the lead track-- "I'll Never Be Free"-- the standard-- "Stormy Weather"-- and Cramer's version of "Re-Enlistment Blues"-- from the 1953 film, From Here to Eternity.
Great album cover too!
Cramer, incidentally, died of lung cancer in 1997. Don't smoke, kids!
RATING: 4 sweet-looking sweater vests out of a possible 5
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