Joe Turner Meets Jimmy Witherspoon, `Patcha, Patcha, All Night Long (1985)

Joe Turner Meets Jimmy Witherspoon, `Patcha, Patcha, All Night Long (1985)

Friday's lunch record is by Joe Turner and Jimmy Witherspoon. Two of the top blues masters singing their hearts out. They get together on two of the songs they each own several of the others. Many top musicians on this Pablo album, Lee Allen (tenor sax). Red Holloway (alto sax), Gary Bell (guitar), Bobby Blevins (keyboards), Jerry Jummonville (baritone sax). Ike Williams (trumpet), Rudy Brown (bass) and Al Duncan (drums). This is sensational blues singing backed with a jazz that drives and grinds accompanying the lyric. The YouTube sample song is "Blues Lament" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXcgDy3a6mY . . bucko