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Mose Allison

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The Resume

    (November 11, 1927-November 15, 2016)
    Born in Tippo, Mississippi
    Blues/jazz pianist and vocalist
    Recorded the albums 'Back Country Suite' (1957), 'Local Color' (1957), 'Young Man Mose' (1958), 'Ramblin' with Mose' (1958), 'Autumn Song' (1959), 'I Love the Life I Live' (1960), 'I Don't Worry About a Thing' (1962), 'Mose Allison Sings' (1963), 'The Word from Mose Allison' (1964), 'Mose Alive!' (1965), 'Down Home Piano' (1965), 'Hello There, Universe' (1969), 'Mose in Your Ear' (1972), 'Middle Class White Boy' (1982), 'My Backyard' (1989), Gimcracks and Gewgaws' (1997) and 'The Way of the World' (2010)

Why he might be annoying:

    His skipped his college graduation ceremony to play at a honky tonk.
    He noted about his eclectic style, 'There's a lot of places I don't work because they're confused about what I do.'
    Despite critical acclaim, his albums were never commercial successes.
    He explained a long absence from the studio by noting, 'I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there and none of them are selling.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He grew up in a home without electricity or indoor plumbing.
    His song 'Young Man Blues' became a staple of the Who's live show.
    The New Yorker wrote, 'Cynical, literary and witty, he was like Ambrose Bierce with a piano.' (Other literary-minded critics dubbed him the Mark Twain and William Faulkner of jazz.)
    He received a NEA Jazz Masters Award (2013).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 46 Votes: 69.57% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 35 Votes: 54.29% Annoying