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1961 studio album by Mose Allison
Takes to the Hills
Studio album by Mose Allison
Released1961
RecordedDecember 21, 1959 – January 11, 1960; June 28 – September 9, 1960; May 16, 1961
New York
GenreBlues / Jazz
Length37:31
LabelEpic
ProducerTeo Macero
Mose Allison chronology
I Love the Life I Live
(1960) 		Takes to the Hills
(1961) 		I Don't Worry About a Thing
(1962)

This album was re-issued in 1966 as V-8 Ford Blues.

Track listing

All compositions by Mose Allison except as indicated

  1. "V-8 Ford Blues" (Willie Love) – 2:11
  2. "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sidney Clare, Sam H. Stept) – 1:26
  3. "Baby, Please Don't Go" (Big Joe Williams) – 2:32
  4. "Hey, Good Lookin'" (Hank Williams) – 1:41
  5. "I Love the Life I Live" (Willie Dixon) – 2:22
  6. "I Ain't Got Nobody" (Roger Graham, Spencer Williams) – 1:51
  7. "Back on the Corner" – 1:54
  8. "Life Is Suicide" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:44
  9. "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 1:55
  10. "Ask Me Nice" – 2:32
  11. "You're a Sweetheart" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:11
  12. "Mad with You" (Lightnin' Hopkins) – 2:10

Personnel

Tracks 3 and 9 previously released on Transfiguration of Hiram Brown (recorded December 21, 1959 – January 11, 1960):

Tracks 5, 6, 11, and 12 previously released on I Love the Life I Live (recorded June 30, 1960):

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, and 10 (recorded May 16, 1961):

References

Mose Allison
Studio albums
Songs
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