Description
Release Date: 2006
Label: Aim Records
Track List
1 Queen Size Woman
2 Let Me Love You
3 When You Move You Lose
4 Spread Your Love
5 A Fool For You
6 Drifting Blues
7 Sweet Sixteen
8 Night Time Is The Right Time
9 The Glory Of Love
10 Late In The Evening & Reprise
Notes
Baton Rouge’s Bobby Powell had some minor chart success in the ’60s, most notably with his version of the blues classic “C.C. Rider,” which hit the top spot of the R&B charts in 1965, and his cover of “The Bells” bumped into the Top Twenty nearly a decade later in 1974, but that was pretty much it, and the blind pianist and singer is barely known today. Powell signed with Senator Jones’ Mississippi-based Hep Me label in 1979, releasing a couple of regional singles as well as two or three LPs on the imprint before leaving secular music for a relatively low-key gospel career. This brief set collects a handful of those Hep Me tracks, including the powerful and moody “When You Move You Lose,” a sturdy if hardly flashy “A Fool for You,” and the stomping “Late in the Evening/Reprise,” which closes things out here.
