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| | Matriarch of the Blues | | | Music Artist : | | Etta James | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sony Bmg Europe | | Release Date : | | 2000-12-12 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $19.99 | | Usually ships in 1 to 2 days | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Gotta Serve Somebody
2. Don't Let My Baby Ride
3. Rhymes
4. Try a Little Tenderness
5. Miss You
6. Hawg For Ya
7. You're Gonna Make Me Cry
8. Walking The Back Streets
9. Let's Straighten It Out
10. Born on the Bayou
11. Come Back Baby
12. Hound Dog
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 This is The Real Deal
Submitted on: 2008-02-20 |
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| This is Etta James at her best. If you like the blues, you will love this CD. |
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RAW & RIVETING~BRAVO FUNKY DIVA!!!
Submitted on: 2007-12-23 |
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Opening strong with Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody", clearly the legendary diva Etta James is in peak form in a great musical setting lead by her two very capable boys Donto & Sametto who are stellar musicians and it is clear where all this wondrous talent & energy come from...Funky Mama James has been a powerful force in the industry since the fifties and seeing this legendary wonder in concert has long been a thrilling experience...sold-out 2007 LA concert showed this amazing lady the ultimate survivor and no doubt Etta is once again in greater than ever form! Bob Dylan still must be going back like I have since the release of "Matriarch" to experience his masterwork given what is clearly a definitive sublime and oh so funky reading of "Gotta Serve Somebody" that could only come from Etta! "Don't Let My Baby Ride" is a funky masterwork with a nice edgy quality that simmers & cooks with horns & guitars that perfectly frame a masterful vocal that is loose and gritty. Al Green songs are always inspired and hard to top in Etta's hands and "Rhymes" is no exception as this is a exceptional mega-treat from start to finish...Otis & Etta always have been a winning combo and "Try A Little Tenderness" is deep & supremely soulful...Jagger/Richards "Missing You" is definitive and the composers must have been blown away by this wildly funky & thrilling version that is one to play over and over being completely over the top great! Another Otis classic "Hawg For Ya" is a soul-deep performance that would have made Otis proud as Etta has the special ability to bring depth to the late & great Otis compositions in a way nobody else comes close to and it would be a treat for Etta to do a tribute collection honoring this legendary master. Deep blues starts with two magnificent stunners and "You're Gonna Make Me Cry" & "Walking The Back Streets" are two of the greatest blues performances recorded & captured in a studio recording in recent years...everything is perfection about these two great tracks and get the repeat mode ready as there is nothing that compares to these awesome performances for lovers of classic blues as Etta "nails" each great song and burns the tracks till they smoke...BRAVO ETTA & CO.!!! "Walking The Back Streets" is a blues anthem that has got to be one of the greatest ever blues performances...BRAVO ETTA for this awesome performance and to Donto & Sametto for amazing support that you both give mom...blues anthems are intense & inspired!
Etta continues with great performances and "Let's Straighten It Out" is loose & funky in a way that only Etta could achieve...legendary artist at the top of her game & Fogerty must have been jazzed when he heard this swampy classic version of "Born On The Bayou"...Uncle Ray had to be thrilled when he heard this cooker version of "Come Back Baby" and the legendary Leiber/Stoller duo must have been thrilled with Etta's very authentic sounding "Hound Dog".
Nobody has come close over the past fifty years to what this legend has accomplished in concerts & recordings and from all true music lovers over the years a big THANK YOU ETTA JAMES and keep on rocking!!! |
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 The Voice Done Gone
Submitted on: 2001-06-20 |
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| It's time for Etta to hang it up. Period. This CD is painfully embarassing. The voice done gone. I had looked forward to hearing the several notable covers, but Etta doesn't appear to have looked forward to singing them. Most are marked by minimal effort. Uncreative, uninvolved, uninspired ... Etta uncharacteristically limps through the tunes, as if someone off-mike was forcing her through them. I consider this purchase a complete waste of money, and listening to it an equally complete waste of time. |
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powerful good
Submitted on: 2001-05-10 |
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Until buying this CD I rated Live in San Francisco as easily her best but this, Praise the Lord!!, is a total mindf*#k. This is righteous powerful stuff: funk in overdrive--turbocharged blues--funkified rock!!
The sound alone grabs you and slams you against your living room feature wall if you play it loud which I believe you must. It's clean and strong and goes right through you. (Even on my little NHT superzero speakers which aren't supposed to have any bass response - so where did all that incredibly powerful tight bass come from ??) It sounds more live than a "live" album.
Etta puts all of her personality into each song expressing more power and authority than I've ever heard from her. Fantastic! |
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 You gotta respect somebody
Submitted on: 2001-04-14 |
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| For the people who ... their only perception of singers are teenage girls with lollipops hanging out their mouth,overweight and 63-years old Etta James must seems like insult.For us who are real believers in good music,her return to blues (after several surprisingly uninspired albums of jazz covers) is a welcome change and hope that she would follow her intuition next time around.From the first few seconds is audible that her heart is in blues and she is in total control of wide range of emotions on the album,spreading them around like a magiacian.While Aretha half-heartedly grooves with new R&B sound,Etta is doing what she is doing best and makes this old songs sounds like new.How many 63-year old singers can you name,who will turn Rolling Stones disco into slow,sexy blues or squeeze gentle bossa nova "Let's straighten this out" between gospel Dylan and rocking John Fogerty,sing heartbreaking blues "You're Gonna Make Me Cry" or cover of Al Green song AND end it all with a joyful,happy "Hound Dog" in which she is actually barking (you can imagine her in studio!)? Not just because of her famous past,but because her present is so decidedly uncompromising,I love and respect Etta James.(Please stop this "diva" thing - its overused expression,reserved for a every new big-haired top-charter and the word does not describe Etta James who is recording since 1955.) |
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