Thursday, April 26, 2018

Denise LaSalle  - Love Talkin' / Rain & Fire

Album: Love Talkin'
Size: 105,7 MB
Time: 45:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1985
Styles: Blues, R&B, Soul
Art: Front & Back

01. Talkin' In Your Sleep (4:00)
02. Someone Else Is Steppin' In (5:15)
03. Nobody Loves Me Like You Do (4:05)
04. Give Me Yo' Most Strongest Whiskey (4:04)
05. Love Is A Five Letter Word (5:05)
06. Love Talkin' (3:21)
07. Get What You Can Get (4:02)
08. Linger A Little Longer (3:56)
09. Keeps Me Runnin' Back (3:54)
10. Too Many Lovers (4:04)
11. My Tu-Tu (3:23)

As with all her Malaco albums, Denise LaSalle mixes things up nicely, going from hard-hitting, trash-talking tunes to heartfelt ballads, bluesy numbers, and country/soul wailers. She's had a string of regionally successful releases since joining Malaco in the '80s, but has never been able to break the embargo on Southern soul. She's been around too long to change at this point, and really shouldn't anyway. Her albums are reliable and enjoyable, even if they're a throwback. ~ by Ron Wynn

Love Talkin'

Album: Rain & Fire
Size: 100,3 MB
Time: 43:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1986/2004
Styles: Blues, R&B, Soul
Art: Front & Back

01. It Be's That Way Sometimes (8:39)
02. I'm Sho' Gonna Mess With Yo Man (4:14)
03. What's Goin' On In My House (4:09)
04. Look What Can Happen To You (If You Get Caught Messin' With My Tutu) (4:04)
05. Shame, Shame, Shame (3:42)
06. Dip, Bam, Thank You Maam (3:19)
07. Learnin' How To Cheat On You (3:26)
08. Rain And Fire (3:40)
09. It Takes You All Night (3:53)
10. Is He Lovin' Someone Else Tonight (3:55)

Denise LaSalle has drawn some fire at times for her frank, no-holds-barred dialogues and album cuts. She also has remained loyal to vintage soul and blues/country-tinged songs that will never get urban contemporary airplay and attention because they're thoroughly Southern in style, sound, and production values. Thus, each Malaco album is almost doomed from the beginning, other than as a regional proposition. That said, here's another one right in that same vein, and it's as fine as all the rest in what it does. ~by Ron Wynn

Rain & Fire

2 comments:

Fourcade said...

Thx for introducing me to a new voice!
Cheers Daniel, from Spain...

Bob Mac said...

Thanks for these Bluestender.