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Trouble Blues

Sam Cooke · 1963 · album Night Beat

Context

This blues, credited to Brown, is on Night Beat, recorded over three night sessions on February 22, 23 and 25, 1963 at RCA Victor studios in Hollywood and released in August 1963. In a small-group setting, with Billy Preston on organ and Barney Kessel on guitar, the album breaks with Cooke's orchestrated productions; The Guardian included it among the "1000 albums to hear before you die."

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Blues, spirituals, work songs, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese.

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