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Released: Aug 29, 2006
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Released: Aug 29, 2006
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Percy Mayfield was blessed with an emotive Louisiana baritone and a poet's sensibility to sadness and pain, and few songwriters in the history of pop or R&B have written a body of work so drenched...
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Blues Laureate: The RCA Years
Released: Apr 4, 2006
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Released: Apr 4, 2006
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When Percy Mayfield's contract as composer and performer with Ray Charles -- a business association that lasted seven long years -- because of disagreements with Brother Ray's manager Joe Adams,...
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1951-1954
Released: Sep 20, 2005
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Released: Sep 20, 2005
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Percy Mayfield's songs are full of deep, fathomless fears and a kind of ominous, desperate loneliness that made him the master of the desolate ballad, and even his rare uptempo tracks have a sort...
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1947-1951
Released: Nov 9, 2004
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Released: Nov 9, 2004
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Born in Minden, LA, and raised in Houston, TX, Percy Mayfield came to Los Angeles in 1942 determined to succeed as a songwriter, and gradually developed into a nationally recognized recording...
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