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1974 ABC/BluesWay First Pressing Stereo Release of Bandleader/Composer/Blues Vocalist Lucille Spann Entitled Cry Before I Go, Produced by Al Smith for A Blues on Blues Production, Cover Photo by Don Peterson, Originally Recorded at P.S. Recording Studio in Chicago, Illinois - "b. Mahalia Lucille Jenkins, 23 June 1938, Bolton, Mississippi, USA. Spann sang gospel to start with, both in Mississippi and later in Chicago, where she lived in her early teens. In the 60s, she met the great blues pianist Otis Spann, and they began a musical partnership and later married. They recorded together, but tragically their collaboration came to an end with Otis’ early death in 1970. Lucille continued to work in music and made a number of further recordings." - Sensational Personnel for the Sextet Features Brilliant Composer Lucille Spann on Vocals, Mighty Joe Young and the Talented Eddie Taylor on Guitars, the Amazing Detroit Junior on Piano, James Green on Bass & the Great Willie "Big Eyes" Smith on Drums! - Selections on Side One Are Original Al Smith Compositions Cry Before I Go, Meat Ration Blues, Country Girl, the Terry Callier Song Make You Feel Like a Bigger Man and the Elmore James Standard the Sky Is Crying - Tracks for Side Two Consist of the Al Smith/A. McMahon Penned Everybody's Fishing, the Preston Foster Classic Got My Mojo Workin', Original Al Smith Composition Can't Stand to Leave You, the Lucille Spann/Al Smith Song Queen Bee & Al Smith/F. Walker's Daddy Let Me Love You - Used Copy, Cover Near Mint Still in Plastic Shrink Wrapper, Record Has some Light Surface Wear and a Few very Light Marks - Stereo Recording, Product Code BLS-6070 - California Residents Add 10.25 % Sales Tax - International S & H Extra -