''Tired of Wandering''. subtitled ''The Blues of Arbee Stidham'', is an album by blues musician

Arbee Stidham Arbee William Stidham (February 9, 1917 – April 26, 1988) was an American blues singer and multi-instrumentalist. According to the authors of the book ''All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues'', Stidham was "exactl ...

recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label the following year.Both Sides Now: Prestige/Bluesville Album Discography
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Reception

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stated: "''Tired of Wandering'' is among his finest albums. This session, which boasts King Curtis on tenor sax, doesn't cater to blues purists; while some of the tunes have 12 bars, others don't. Regardless, the feeling of the blues enriches everything ... Stidham demonstrates that the blues can be sophisticated, polished, and jazz-influenced without losing their grit". Tony Russell in ''

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'' observed: "Stidham's relaxed singing seems here to reflect the manner of Lonnie Johnson. So too does his songwriting, which at the time of the recording was motivated by his belief that 'the blues have kind of taken a ballad trend. You've got to make a sweet blues, and it's got to tell a story'. As an instrumentalist though he had neither Johnson's ability nor, even as is all too embarrassingly evident, his ear".

Track listing

''All compositions by Arbee Stidham, except where indicated.'' # "Last Goodbye Blues" ( Joe Turner) – 3:02 # "You Can't Live in This World by Yourself" – 3:57 # "Pawn Shop" (

Brownie McGhee Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. Life and career McGhee was ...

) – 6:57 # "I'm Tired of Wandering" – 3:10 # "I Wan't to Belong to You" – 3:08 # "Wee Baby Blues" ( Pete Johnson, Turner) – 5:28 # "You Keep Me Yearning" – 2:34 # "My Heart Will Always Belong to You" – 3:36 # "People, What Would You Do" – 3:14 # "Teenage Kiss" (Armond Jackson) – 2:19

Personnel

Performers

– guitar, vocals *

King Curtis Curtis Ousley (born Curtis Montgomery; February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), known professionally as King Curtis, was an American saxophonist who played rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll. A bandleader, band member, and session musician ...

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* John Wright – piano *

Leonard Gaskin Leonard Gaskin (August 25, 1920 – January 24, 2009) was an American jazz bassist born in New York City. Gaskin played on the early bebop scene at Minton's and Monroe's in New York in the early 1940s. In 1944 he took over Oscar Pettiford's ...

– bass *Armond Jackson – drums

Production

Ozzie Cadena Oscar "Ozzie" Cadena (September 26, 1924 – April 9, 2008) was an American record producer with Savoy Records and Prestige Records who recorded gospel and jazz music in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and helped popularize jazz music in Los Ange ...

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Rudy Van Gelder Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Theloni ...

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References

{{Authority control 1961 albums Arbee Stidham albums Bluesville Records albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Albums produced by Ozzie Cadena