Working Man Blues

 

Let's talk about how the Hammond B3 organ became the quintessential instrument for the strong man blues. How it's almost muffled ring symbolize the quiet pain, hidden grunt that seam working men's lives, becoming the right organ to best tell tales as they would have it, in the right tone.

I want go out on limb and request interested film makers to please make a documentary on Jimmy Smith, he was a truly incredible man

He pioneered the use of the use of The Hammond B3 organ in Jazz, a true virtuoso in every sense, he went on to make some classic Jazz albums, notably being Back at the Chicken Shack.
It became the right sound for the working man blues how the fitting sound for the Strong man jazz, Jonny Smith brought via the Hammond B3 brought  that extra strong, extra bass, extra feel.
The Hammond soon made for the right Sunday jazz little wonder it the eponymy of the Soul Shack first track. it became the very shack 
It is the Hammond B3 that Jack Macduff use in layering Sonny's somber sax, It's funny tow albums have the word Shack in them it's the bite, the resting place, the wanderers lodge, shacking it up has the strong appeal of what life as a man truly symbolizes, The woman owns the home, the children and the working man simply comes home to shack it up till the next morning.

Here are two albums that really shacks it up

Sonny Stitt & Jack Macduff - Soul Shack

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Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack

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