Showing posts with label Jimmy Witherspoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jimmy Witherspoon. Show all posts

May 09, 2023

Jimmy Witherspoon with The Duke Robillard Band (rec.1995, rel. 2000)

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Spoonful
This is supposed to be Witherspoon aka “Spoon” last recording and many critics apparently underrated it on the account of his being under his usual vocal level. Nevertheless the album is a triple treat featuring blues crooner Spoon of course, Robillard and… Sax Gordon !

Spoon's voice is so hoarse that you wonder if he's gonna make it to the end of each song. Actually he died from throat cancer two years after this 1995 live recording in a Vancouver club. But the then 75-year old veteran never lets his voice fail him.