Rita Chiarelli - 2 albums: No-One To Blame / Music From The Big House (Soundtrack)

The one thing Chiarelli is not; is predictable. Over the past five years she has released Cuore, a recording of traditional Italian folk songs, which won the World music category at the prestigious Canadian Folk Music Awards; Uptown Goes Downtown, a highly acclaimed collaboration with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra; and Music From the Big House, an award winning documentary movie filmed in Louisiana, at Angola prison, which premiered in New York and L.A. Her CD Sweet Paradise, heralds a return to Chiarelli’s blues roots, and is her first album of all original tunes since 2001 ‘s JUNO nominated Breakfast at Midnight.

As if creating beautiful music wasn’t enough, Rita has entered the film world starring in the critically acclaimed Music From The Big House. She also developed the original concept for the film, one that takes Rita on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues, Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison. She never imagined that her love of the blues would lead her to a historic jailhouse performance with inmates serving life sentences.

Her most recent release is the critically praised Music From The Big House Soundtrack, recorded LIVE with the musical inmates of Angola Prison as seen in the film and featuring Rita’s gut wrenching performance of "These Four Walls".

Over the past decade Rita Chiarelli has won every major Canadian blues award, including multiple Maple Blues awards, CBC’s Great Canadian Blues Award, Toronto Independent Music Awards, Hamilton Music Awards, Manitoba Blues Society and the Hamilton Blues Society’s Lifetime Achievement Awards. Most recently Rita was awarded the prestigious Maple Blues ‘Blues With A Feeling Award’ for Lifetime Achievement in January 2011.

Showing no signs of slowing down, Chiarelli continues to tour incessantly in North America and Europe and intends to spend more time performing in the U.S. over the next few years.

Album: No-One To Blame
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 45:33
Size: 104.3 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2004/2011
Art: Front

[3:26] 1. Grits Ain't Groceries
[3:14] 2. Lonely Avenue
[3:51] 3. I Don't Know What You Got
[2:59] 4. You Are My Sunshine
[2:44] 5. Two Steps From The Blues
[3:09] 6. Hey Memphis
[2:53] 7. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
[2:45] 8. Driving Wheel
[3:55] 9. Doggin' Around
[2:54] 10. I Pity The Fool
[3:13] 11. Why Are People Like That
[4:09] 12. The Thrill Is Gone
[2:57] 13. Yes, It's Me, I'm In Love Again
[3:18] 14. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

No-One To Blame

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Album: Music From The Big House (Soundtrack)
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:34
Size: 92.9 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[1:17] 1. Rita's Journey
[4:28] 2. These Four Walls
[4:10] 3. Mississippi Boy (Performed By The Jazzmen)
[4:27] 4. Don't Let Him Catch You (With Your Work Undone) With Pure Heart Messenger
[5:01] 5. Mercy Blues (Performed With The Jazzmen Feat. Ross)
[4:06] 6. Harvest (With Pure Heart Messenger Feat. Al Patterson)
[2:26] 7. Rest My Bones (Prisonyard Rehearsal)
[3:55] 8. Glory Glory (Performed With Pure Heart Messenger)
[0:54] 9. Rain On Me (With Pure Heart Messenger Feat. Ray Jones)
[3:35] 10. Rain On Me (With Pure Heart Messenger Feat. Ray Jones)
[2:21] 11. I Love You Still (Performed With Little Country)
[3:49] 12. Midnight Special (Rita Chiarelli With All Bands)

Music From The Big House (Soundtrack)

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