Description
Liner Note Author: Lithoyfayne Pridgon.
Duke Ellington spoke of certain things being "beyond category"--such a description suits singer Etta James. Since the 1950s, James has helped to set trends and adapted to them, applying her deep, dignified voice to jazz, blues, Southern soul, and pop balladry. BLUES TO THE BONE is James's tribute to the blues, and it takes on well-worn genre standards and gives them a veritable new lease on life. James alternates between acoustic and electric renditions--"Lil' Red Rooster" becomes a country-tinged lamentation, and "Smokestack Lightnin'" gets a rare bare-bones treatment, just voice and acoustic guitar. "Got My Mojo Working" is a chugging, loping hunk of bravado, and "The Sky Is Crying" sounds like a storm about to break, James' voice the virtual definition of "soulful." Throughout, James sings the blues as one who has lived them, and her accompanists are a lean, mean, well-oiled machine, playing nary an excess note.
Product Details
- Artist
- Etta James
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- SBME/RCA VICTOR
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #5391
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 2004
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 2004
- Number of Discs
- 1
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #4212
- Cast & Crew
- Etta James (Music Performer)
- Donto Jame (Producer)
- Etta James (Producer)
- Josh Sklair (Producer)
- Donto James (Sound Engineer)
- Sametto James (Sound Engineer)
Press Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - "[A]s this new album cogently illustrates, the LA-born chanteuse continues to record with an energetic vigour... Mojo (p.110)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Got My Mojo Working
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Don't Start Me to Talking
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Hush Hush
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Lil' Red Rooster
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That's Alright
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Crawlin' Kingsize
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Dust My Broom
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Sky Is Crying, The
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Smokestack Lightnin'
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You Shook Me
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Driving Wheel
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Honey, Don't Tear My Clothes
