Percy Mayfield – Walking on a Tightrope (Remastered) (1969/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:21 minutes | 405 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Crimson
Singer and songwriter Percy Mayfield is one of the giants of 1950s R&B. He was also the favoured songwriter of Ray Charles who handed him ‘Hit The Road Jack’ and ‘At The Club’. Walking on a Tightrope is his only album for Brunswick originally released in 1969. This is the first time ever this album has been reissued. Digitally remastered.
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Percy Mayfield – Sings Percy Mayfield (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:18 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Blues, R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
A masterful songwriter whose touching blues ballad “Please Send Me Someone to Love,” a multi-layered universal lament, was a number one R&B hit in 1950, Percy Mayfield had the world by the tail until a horrific 1952 auto wreck left him facially disfigured. That didn’t stop the poet laureate of the blues from writing in a prolific fashion, though. As Ray Charles’ favorite scribe during the ’60s, he handed the Genius such gems as “Hit the Road Jack” and “At the Club.”
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