Альбомы исполнителя
Memory Pain, Vol. 2
1992 · альбом
Poet Of The Blues
1990 · альбом
Hit the Road Again
1989 · альбом
Percy Mayfield Live
1988 · альбом
Blues and Then Some
1971 · альбом
Live in San Francisco
1982 · альбом
Sings Percy Mayfield
1970 · альбом
Weakness is a Thing Called Man
1970 · альбом
Tonight Only - Percy Mayfield - Poet Laureate of the Blues
2022 · Мини-альбом
My Heart
2021 · альбом
Please Send Me Someone To Love
2017 · альбом
Percy Mayfield Live in San Francisco
2016 · альбом
Blue Me Away
2015 · альбом
Someone To Love
2011 · сингл
Please Send Me Someone To Love
2010 · альбом
Live In San Francisco
2010 · Мини-альбом
Half Awoke / Two Years of Torture
1949 · сингл
Look the Whole World over / The Bluest Blues
1956 · сингл
Percy Mayfield At His Best
1965 · Мини-альбом
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Биография
A masterful songwriter whose touching blues ballad "Please Send Me Someone to Love," a multi-layered universal lament, was a number one R&B hit in 1950, Percy Mayfield had the world by the tail until a horrific 1952 auto wreck left him facially disfigured. That didn't stop the poet laureate of the blues from writing in a prolific fashion, though. As Ray Charles' favorite scribe during the '60s, he handed the Genius such gems as "Hit the Road Jack" and "At the Club." Like so many of his postwar L.A. contemporaries, Mayfield got his musical start in Texas but moved to the coast during the war. Surmising that Jimmy Witherspoon might like to perform a tune he'd penned called "Two Years of Torture," Mayfield targeted Supreme Records as a possible buyer for his song. But the bosses at Supreme liked his own gentle reading so much that they insisted he wax it himself in 1947 with an all-star band that included saxophonist Maxwell Davis, guitarist Chuck Norris, and pianist Willard McDaniel. Art Rupe's Specialty logo signed Mayfield in 1950 and he scored a solid string of R&B smashes over the next couple of years. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" and its equally potent flip "Strange Things Happening" were followed in the charts by "Lost Love," "What a Fool I Was," "Prayin' for Your Return," "Cry Baby," and "Big Question," cementing Mayfield's reputation as a blues balladeer of the highest order. Davis handled sax duties on most of Mayfield's Specialty sides as well. Mayfield's lyrics were usually as insightfully downbeat as his tempos; he was a true master at expressing his innermost feelings, laced with vulnerability and pathos (his "Life Is Suicide" and "The River's Invitation" are two prime examples). Even though his touring was drastically curtailed after the accident, Mayfield hung in there as a Specialty artist through 1954, switching to Chess in 1955-1956 and Imperial in 1959. Charles proved thankful enough for Mayfield's songwriting genius to sign him to his Tangerine logo in 1962; over the next five years, the singer waxed a series of inexorably classy outings, many with Brother Ray's band (notably "My Jug and I" in 1964 and "Give Me Time to Explain" the next year). It's a rare veteran blues artist indeed who hasn't taken a whack at one or more Mayfield copyrights. Mayfield himself persisted into the '70s, scoring minor chart items for RCA and Atlantic while performing on a limited basis until his 1984 death. ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi