Music Arcades: Jimmy Scott: All the Way

I heard a feature on Jimmy Scott on Radio 4 at the start of 2003. Something about it caught my interest. I asked Tim if he knew of JS over a pint. He did, but said he didn't like him much. That was enough to determine to buy a CD to check him out, and I got this one from Cheap or What? (which now seems to have thrown in the towel, sadly but inevitably).

Tim was right, of course, and I probably haven't played the CD since the first few spins after it arrived. The jazz vocalist is yet another of my blindspots (more reason to trust Tim's advice, since it's not one of his). Billie, Chet, Ella, Kurt Elling, don't do much for me for some reason (Nina the small exception that proves the rule). They talk of phrasing and interpretation, but I confess I find these difficult concepts in the abstract.

Listening to the album again now, I felt a little tug of association: this is the kind of thing you might find in a David Lynch film. I searched YouTube for "Jimmy Scott" "David Lynch" and turned up this (which apparently helped trigger a comeback):

Then I realised. The Lynch connection was almost certainly mentioned in the Radio 4 feature, and that (more than Tim's disdain) was what had originally piqued my interest. Oh, and Duh!, now I look again, isn't that a black and white photo of Scott in the Twin Peaks Black/White Lodge on the cover of the CD?