Part of the ultimate audiophile Prestige stereo reissues from Analogue Productions 25 of the most collectible, rarest, most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made. All cut at 33 1/3 and also released on Hybrid SACD.

All mastered from the original analog master tapes by mastering maestro Kevin Gray. 180-gram LPs pressed at Acoustic Sounds' state-of-the-art pressing plant, Quality Record Pressings, plated by Gary Salstrom.

Tip-on jackets on thick cardboard stock.

This relaxed, rather informal August 15, 1963, session is one of Jimmy Witherspoons rarest and was the only time that the great Arkansas shouter recorded with T-Bone Walker, the Texas-born father of electric blues guitar. In an unusual appearance as a sideman, Walker contributed his trademark brittle-toned solos, obbligatos, and from the five intros to a set of tunes that included such standards as Moneys Gettin Cheaper (a Spoon favorite since he borrowed it from Charles Brown in the late Forties), How Long Blues, Good Rockin Tonight, Kansas City, and Dont Let Go. And adding further Texas seasoning was San Antonio saxophonist Clifford Scott, best known for his distinctive solos on Honky Tonk and other Bill Doggett hits, who not only played tenor (as the original credits indicate), but blew searing alto on Grab Me a Freight and flute on Spoons reading of the haunting title track, a blues ballad previously associated with both Jimmy Rushing and Walker. With Clifford Scott, Bert Kendrix, T-Bone Walker, Clarence Jones and Wayne Robertson.

Review

A1 Money'S Gettin' Cheaper
A2 Grab Me A Freight
A3 Don'T Let Go!
A4 I'Ve Been Treated Wrong
A5 Evenin'
B1 Cane River
B2 Baby, How Long
B3 Good Rocking
B4 Kansas City
B5 Drinking Beer