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Tequila Mockingbird

Tequila Mockingbird is an album by the American jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, released in 1977 on Columbia Records. The album peaked at No. 3 on the US Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart, as well as becoming one of the top-selling record albums in Mexico City.

"Skippin" was issued as the first single in November 1977. The title track, composed by Larry Dunn, was issued as the second single in February 1978.

Tequila Mockingbird was produced by both Larry Dunn of Earth, Wind & Fire and Bert DeCouteaux. Artists such as Ronnie Laws, Eddie Del Barrio and Ernie Watts featured on the album. As well E,W&F's Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Al McKay, Fred White and Johnny Graham made guest appearances.

Skippin' was later covered by both Victor Feldman and The Bill Watrous Combo feat. Danny Stiles.

The album cover was designed by Columbia Records art director John Berg, who also came up with the album title Tequila Mockingbird.

In May 2019, The Roots performed "Tequila Mockingbird" as Jeff Daniels walked to his guest seat on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as a nod to his role as Atticus Finch in the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Robin Welles for the Lake Geneva Regional News praised the album saying the “melody and improvisation blend with jewel-like precision”.

Emmett Weaver of the Birmingham Post-Herald noted "really solid percussion with a semi-Latin influence."

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