Cecil Gant - Cecil Gant: 1944-1945

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Release Date:: 09/08/1997
Label:: Flyright Records
UPC:: 008637106126

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Cecil Gant did a lifetime's worth of recording in six scant years between the release of his first single, the lovely "I Wonder," and his death in 1952 at the age of 38. In between he assembled a ragged legacy of ballads, piano boogies and urban blues numbers (most of them with GiltEdge Records) that exhibits a distinctly modern awareness of how much personality contributes to record sales. Gant wasn't a particularly gifted singer, but he exuded fun and confidence (and sincerity, as well, on the ballads), and his piano skills often sacrificed technique for energy and power, attitude traits that make him, in many ways, a prototype figure for rock roll. This collection has "I Wonder," which started it all, but lacks his next two RB hits, "Grass Is Getting Greener Every Day" and "I'm Tired," which were both released in 1945, and what may be his finest song, "I'm a Good Man But a Poor Man," released in 1952 on Bullet Records. But there is plenty of the goofy Gant attitude here, particularly on the frequently ironic "I Gotta Gal," which contains the intriguing lines "the east is on fire/the west is burning down." Another highlight finds Gant in hipster mode for the impossibly likeable "Hit That Jive Jack," which sounds a bit like Nat King Cole trying to do a Louis Armstrong impression andwonder of wonderspulling it off in style. Gant exuded winning charm, and he sang well enough, and was adept enough at the piano, to put it all over, and it is a true pity his career was cut so tragically short.

- Steve Leggett , All Music Guide

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Pianist Cecil Gant seemingly materialized out of the wartime mist to create one of the most enduring blues ballads of the 1940s. Gant was past age 30 when he burst onto the scene in a most unusual way -- he popped up in military uniform at a Los Ange...Full Cecil Gant Biography

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