Track Listing 1. Got My Mojo Working 2. Don't Start Me Talkin' 3. Hush Hush 4. Lil' Red Rooster 5. That's Alright 6. Crawlin' King Snake 7. Dust My Broom 8. Sky Is Crying 9. Smokestack Lightnin' 10. You Shook Me 11. Driving Wheel 12. Honey Don't Tear My Clothes
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Donto Jame, Etta James, Josh Sklair | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Personnel include: Etta James (vocals); Brian Ray (guitar, slide guitar); Josh Sklair, Bobby Murray (guitar); John "Juke" Logan (harmonica); Mike Finnegan (piano); Sametto James (bass guitar); Donto James (drums).Producers: Etta James; Josh Sklar; Donto James; Sametto James.Liner Note Author: Lithoyfayne Pridgon.Duke Ellington spoke of certain things being "beyond category"--such a description suits singer Etta James. Since the 1950s, James has helped to set trends and adapted to them, applying her deep, dignified voice to jazz, blues, Southern soul, and pop balladry. BLUES TO THE BONE is James's tribute to the blues, and it takes on well-worn genre standards and gives them a veritable new lease on life. James alternates between acoustic and electric renditions--"Lil' Red Rooster" becomes a country-tinged lamentation, and "Smokestack Lightnin'" gets a rare bare-bones treatment, just voice and acoustic guitar. "Got My Mojo Working" is a chugging, loping hunk of bravado, and "The Sky Is Crying" sounds like a storm about to break, James' voice the virtual definition of "soulful." Throughout, James sings the blues as one who has lived them, and her accompanists are a lean, mean, well-oiled machine, playing nary an excess note.
Editorial Reviews 3 stars out of 5 - [A]s this new album cogently illustrates, the LA-born chanteuse continues to record with an energetic vigour... Mojo
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