Idle Hours (album)

Idle Hours is an album by blues musicians Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey, recorded in 1962 and released on the Bluesville label.^[1][2][3]

Idle Hours
Studio album by Lonnie Johnson with Victoria Spivey
Released	1961
Recorded	July 13, 1961
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Blues
Length	40:43
Label	Bluesville BVLP 1044
Producer	Chris Albertson
Lonnie Johnson chronology
Losing Game (1961) Idle Hours (1961) Another Night to Cry (1962)
Victoria Spivey chronology
Idle Hours (1961) Songs We Taught Your Mother (1962)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]

AllMusic reviewer Bill Dahl stated: "Johnson and Victoria Spivey had known one another for decades, so it's no surprise that their musical repartee on 1961's Idle Hours seems so natural and playful".^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Lonnie Johnson except where noted

1. "Darling, I Miss You So" – 3:23
2. "Long Time Blues" – 4:35
3. "You Are My Life" – 3:38
4. "Oh Yes Baby" – 2:43
5. "Please Baby" – 2:52
6. "Leave Me or Love Me" – 2:57
7. "Idle Hours" (Spivey) – 3:30
8. "You Have No Love in Your Heart" – 3:51
9. "Good Luck Darling" – 3:20
10. "No More Cryin'" – 3:35
11. "I Got the Blues So Bad" (Spivey) – 3:03
12. "End It All" – 3:16

Personnel

Performance

• Lonnie Johnson – guitar, vocals (tracks 1–10 & 12)
• Victoria Spivey – vocals, piano (tracks 2, 7 & 11)
• Cliff Jackson – piano (tracks 1–8, 10 & 12)

Production

• Chris Albertson – supervision
• Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

References

1. "Prestige Records Catalog: Bluesville 1000 series". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
2. "Prestige/Bluesville Album Discography". www.bsnpubs.com. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
3. "Illustrated Lonnie Johnson discography". www.wirz.de. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
4. Dahl, Bill. Lonnie Johnson / Victoria Spivey: Idle Hours – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
5. Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
6. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 375–376.