Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1992
Time: 43:25
Size: 138,2 MB
Label: New Rose
Styles: Blues
Art: Full
Tracks Listing:
1. Mr. Honky Tonk's Back In Town - 3:44
2. Kidney Stew - 2:40
3. Cherry Red - 3:46
4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out -
4:15
5. Summer Time - 5:06
6. Let's go to the snack bar - 1:15
7. Early In The Morning - 3:16
8. Tuff - 4:19
9. Paralysed - 4:09
10. Anything But Work - 2:40
11. Motherless Child - 3:43
12. Honky Tonk - 4:27
Texas Tenor sax man Clifford Scott
was born in San Antonio. His first professional job there was at the Keyhole
Club in 1946. He was "discovered" by Lionel Hampton at age 14 and
worked in Hamp's band from 1948-50. After playing with the Rhythm and Blues
bands of Roy Milton and Jay McShann, he rejoined Hamp in 1953. Clifford left
Hampton in 1954 to study arranging in New York. He freelanced there until
joining Bill Doggett's band in late 1955, staying until 1961. It was during
this period that Scott co-wrote his best-remembered hit tune, "Honky
Tonk". (The following comes from John Broven's sleeve notes for the CD
"Honky Tonk!" - Ace 761.) "Honky Tonk" was conceived by
Clifford Scott and Billy Butler (who played guitar in Doggett's combo) in an
informal hotel room jam session before a dance in Lima, Ohio. That night, on
stage and without rehearsal, Butler told Bill Doggett and drummer Shep Shepherd
to "just play a shuffle" and when they got through the people started
to applaud. They wouldn't get off the dance floor, they just continued to stand
there and appalud "more, more, more..". So they did it again, played
some other tunes and had an intermission, and when they came back the audience
started yelling "We wanna hear that tune!". And they didn't even have
a name for it. When the band got back to New York, they set up a recording
session with a studio down on 31st Street. The engineer turned the machine on,
he goes out to take a smoke - he wasn't regulating the controls, he wasn't
doing anything - and Doggett's band went on and just played. When they started
to stop, he said "Keep it up!", which they did and that's how it
became a two-sided record. "Honky Tonk", parts 1 & 2, went to # 2
on the pop charts and # 1 on the R&B charts in 1956. Writing credit goes to
B. Doggett, S. Shepherd, C. Scott and B. Butler.
Scott then left for Los Angeles to
work in the recording studios there. He toured with Ray Charles on and off from
1966 until 1973. He returned to San Antonio in 1976 and remained there for the
rest of his career, still active as a saxophonist. He made a few (unsuccessful)
jazz albums as a solo act and a recording with Wild Bill Davis in 1986 in
Zurich. Clifford Scott died in 1993, aged 64.
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