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Etta James, Matriarch of the Blues
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1623475
Disk length: 1h 4m 29s (12 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2000
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 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 | 3:44 |
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Review
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
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Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 4m 27s (-1m 58s)
Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 4m 27s (-1m 58s)
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