03 Linsey Alexander - Raffle Ticket

Linsey Alexander Raffle Ticket 5:51
(Linsey Alexander, Hoochieman Music, BMI)

Linsey Alexander, vocal, guitar; Breezy Rodio, Mike Wheeler, guitar; Roosevelt Purifoy, piano; Greg McDaniel, bass; James Wilson, drums March, 2012 from Been There Done That (822)

Linsey Alexander: “Raffle Ticket”
Guitarist Linsey Alexander was born in 1942 in the deep blues country of Holly Springs, Mississippi. By the early ‘60s, he’d learned guitar and moved to Chicago, where he began to make a name in the competitive local music scene. In 2012, he expanded his reputation further with his Delmark debut, Been There Done That, a disk that highlighted both his downhome background and his eclectic embrace of modern influences ranging from deep soul to funk-propelled R&B. “Raffle Ticket,” though, finds him rooted in the postwar sound; it also showcases his witty wordcraft and improvisational imagination.