The Way of the World
Album | Mose Allison
Original hipster sounds as sharp at 82 as he ever has.
At the age of 82, original hipster Mose Allison sounds as sharp on The Way of the World as he has at any point over the last 50 years. Apparently, the main reason pragmatist Mose hadn't released any new material in 13 years was simply his existing catalog wasn’t selling. It took Allison aficionado Joe Henry to coax the bluesy bard of cool jazz out of his recording hiatus; as producer, Henry sagely stays out of ol’ man Mose’s way most of the time, though a few ideas sound like they came out of the control room: the occasional tribal beat, the choice of Loudon Wainwright III’s “I’m Alright” as a cover tune. For the most part, though, we get Mose playing to his strengths, laconically murmuring worldly-wise lyrics that cover everything from anti-deism (“A Modest Proposal”) to the shelf life of synapses (“My Brain”), all with his characteristically mordant black humor. Along the way, he cuts his first-ever duet (with daughter Amy Allison, a noted singer-songwriter in her own right), sings one of said offspring’s tunes, and revisits a couple of his great, overlooked compositions from the past (“Let It Come Down,” “Ask Me Nice”) for those who may have missed them the first time around.
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