The Glory of Alberta Hunter

RELEASE
1981
LABEL
CBS Records
GENRES
Blues, Classic Female Blues, Standards

Album Review

Alberta Hunter's comeback after 20 years off the music scene was quite inspiring. She was (along with Sippie Wallace) virtually the only classic blues singer of the 1920s still active during part of the 1980s, and her four Columbia albums (of which this was the third) are surprisingly strong. With able backing by the Gerald Cook quartet, trumpeter Doc Cheatham, trombonist Vic Dickenson and tenor-saxophonist Budd Johnson, Alberta Hunter sings some standards (including "Some of These Days," "The Glory of Love" and "I Cried for You"), a few religious hymns ("Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" and "Give Me That Old Time Religion"), the Yiddish tune "Ich Hob Dich Tzufil Lieba" and her own "Alberta's Blues" and "The Love I Have for You."
Scott Yanow, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
  2. I've Had Enough ( Alberta's Blues )
  3. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
  4. Some of These Days
  5. The Glory of Love
  6. You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark
  7. I Love You Much Too Much/Ich Hob Dich Tzufil Lieb
  8. I Cried for You
  9. The Love I Have for You
  10. Sometimes I'm Happy
  11. Give Me That Old Time Religion