Etta James - Matriarch Of The Blues

Year: 2000
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:26
Size: 147,5 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Gotta Serve Somebody (6:48)
2. Don't Let My Baby Ride (5:16)
3. Rhymes (4:35)
4. Try A Little Tenderness (4:47)
5. Miss You (5:59)
6. Hawg For Ya (3:45)
7. You're Gonna Make Me Cry (6:17)
8. Walking The Back Streets (7:07)
9. Let's Straighten It Out (5:24)
10. Born On The Bayou (4:41)
11. Come Back Baby (5:57)
12. Hound Dog (3:43)

The mark of great singers is their ability to turn a trifling song into an emotional masterwork. R&B legend Etta James has done it live for nearly 20 years with Kiki Dee's "Sugar on the Floor" and a few others. But what's really sublime is hearing James sink her teeth into numbers that stand up to her own greatest work - "At Last" and the other Chess hits that built her reputation. James ignites such sparks all over this new disc of mostly well-chosen covers, wrapping her deep, supple, and saucy pipes around Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness" and "Hawg for You"; replacing Mick Jagger's flippancy with real heart on the Rolling Stones' "Miss You"; putting the gospel fire into Bob Dylan's "You Got to Serve Somebody"; and digging down 'n' dirty into O.V. Wright's "Don't Let My Baby Ride." The straight-ahead arrangements and undistinguished playing leave James to carry the album herself, but at 62, she's still a fireball and more than up to the task. /Ted Drozdowski, Amazon

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