Makes your heart sing: A stop the traffic instrumental treatment of the Eddy Arnold and Cindy Walker song of disappointed love synonymous with Ray Charles given how Brother Ray had a hit with it as a single and on Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music six years after Arnold debuted the song in 1956 following versions in-between by the great crooner Jerry Vale, ultimate torch song singer Carmen McRae, Helen Merrill and others - the JD Allen approach is to converse with the double bass of Gregg August most here and in lapidary lines with guitar boffin Charlie Hunter. And the approach is compelling. Drummer Rudy Royston impeccable on the new Art Hirahara album Verdant Valley sanctifies the sound. We regard JD as one of the best 20 tenor players on the planet. He does not disappoint. Drawn from Americana, Vol. 2 out on the 26th
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