Lonely and Blue (Etta Jones album)

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The Allmusic site awarded the album three stars, stating: "Singer Etta Jones often recalls late-period Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington."^[2]

1. "I'll Be There" (Howard Cook) – 2:55
2. "In the Dark" (Lil Green) – 2:55
3. "Out in the Cold Again" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:16
4. "I'm Pulling Through" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 3:37
5. "My Gentleman Friend" (Arnold B. Horwitt, Richard Lewine) – 2:20
6. "I Wonder" (Cecil Gant) – 3:20
7. "You Don't Know My Mind" (Clarence Williams) – 3:51
8. "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 3:09
9. "Good-For-Nothin' Joe" (Bloom, Koehler) – 3:50
10. "I Miss You So" (Jimmy Henderson, Sid Robin, Bertha Scott) – 3:26 (orig. by The Cats and the Fiddle)
11. "Trav'lin' Light" (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young) – 3:43
12. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:28 Bonus track on CD reissue
13. "If You Are But a Dream" (Nat Bonx, Jack Fulton, Moe Jaffe) – 4:22 Bonus track on CD reissue
14. "Cool Cool Daddy" (Traditional) – 4:50 Bonus track on CD reissue

• Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on April 6, 1962 (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9 & 10), April 13, 1962 (tracks 12–14) and May 4, 1962 (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 11)

• Etta Jones – vocals
• Gene Ammons (tracks 12–14), Budd Johnson (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 11) – tenor saxophone
• Patti Bown – piano
• Wally Richardson – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9 & 10)
• Art Davis (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 11), George Duvivier (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 & 12–14) – bass
• Walter Perkins (tracks 12–14), Ed Shaughnessy (tracks 1–11) – drums