''Cherry Red'' is an album by the American saxophonist/vocalist
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr.; December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed "Cleanhead" after an incident in which his hair was ...
recorded in New York in 1967 and released by the
BluesWay label.
Michael Bloomfield - American Guitarist: Discography 1966-1967
accessed November 7, 2019
Track listing
All compositions by Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and Louis Zito except where noted
# "Cherry Red" ( Pete Johnson, Big Joe Turner
Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him". Turner's greatest fa ...
) − 3:09
# "Cadillac Blues" (George David Weiss
George David Weiss (April 9, 1921 – August 23, 2010) was an American songwriter and arranger, who was a president of the Songwriters Guild of America.
He is an inductee in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Biography
Weiss was born in a Jewish f ...
, George Douglas) − 2:59
# "Juice Head Baby" − 3:08
# "Alimony Blues" − 3:27
# "Somebody's Gotta Go" (Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1893 or 1903August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country music to mostly African-American audiences. In the 19 ...
) − 3:03
# "Flat Broke Blues" (Weiss, Douglas) − 2:26
# "Old Maid Got Married" (Vinson, Milt Larkin, D. Timberlake) − 2:43
# "Workin' Blues" (Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life.
Born and raised in Washington, D ...
, Don George
Don R. George (August 27, 1909 – 1987) was an American lyricist of popular music. His songs include " The Yellow Rose of Texas" " I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" (1937), " I'm Beginning to See the Light" (1944) and " Everything but You" (194 ...
) − 2:50
# "Wee Baby Blues" (Johnson, Turner) − 3:00
# "Goodnight Baby Blues" − 5:02
Personnel
*Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr.; December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed "Cleanhead" after an incident in which his hair was ...
− alto saxophone, vocals
* Buddy Lucas − tenor saxophone, harmonica
*Mike Bloomfield
Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago, he became one of the first popular music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrume ...
− guitar
*Patti Bown
Patti Bown (July 26, 1931, Seattle, Washington – March 21, 2008, Media, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and singer.
Early life and career
Bown was born in Seattle, the daughter of Augustus Bown and Edith Ruth Cahill Br ...
− piano, organ
*Unidentified musicians − guitar, bass, drums
References
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BluesWay Records albums
1967 albums
Eddie Vinson albums
Albums produced by Bob Thiele