Etta James, Life, Love & the Blues - 59m 40s

Tracks & Durations

1. Born Under A Bad Sign	3:29
2. I Want To Ta Ta You, Baby	5:56
3. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)	4:55
4. Running Out Of Lies	5:03
5. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)	7:01
6. Spoonful	4:09
7. Life, Love & The Blues	5:17
8. Hoochie Coochie Gal	4:25
9. Cheating In The Next Room	4:57
10. If You Want Me To Stay	5:21
11. The Love You Save May Be Your Own	4:01
12. I'll Take Care Of You	4:58

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Review

On Life, Love & the Blues, Etta James returns to her blues and soul repertoire, enlivening even the hoariest of tunes ("Spoonful," a gender-flopped "Hoochie Coochie Gal") with her growl. The tinges of funk underpinning "Born Under a Bad Sign" are given full room to stretch on a cover of Sly Stone's "If You Want Me to Stay," and James nearly swipes "The Love You Save May Be Your Own," one of Joe Tex's great preaching ballads, from the master. --Rickey WrightEtta James followed her two deeply jazzy mid-'90s albums of torch songs with Love's Been Rough on Me, a flirtation with Nashville writers. On Life, Love & the Blues, she returns to her blues and soul repertoire, enlivening even the hoariest of tunes ("Spoonful," a gender-flopped "Hoochie Coochie Gal") with her growl. The tinges of funk underpinning "Born Under a Bad Sign" are given full room to stretch on a cover of Sly Stone's "If You Want Me to Stay," and James nearly swipes "The Love You Save May Be Your Own," one of Joe Tex's great preaching ballads, from the master. --Rickey Wright

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