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The Blues
The Whole Blues, and ...
Nothin' But Da Blues baby!!!!!
It is Friday thank goodness, and I can't wait till Sunday!! It is my favorite day ever!! Here I am listening to the best jazz an blues there ever was. I'm filing CDs and listening to Etta James, next record and I stop. Is she really making Prince's "Purple Rain" over? And did I just hear Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" What, I wonder, is going on with Etta, the rock-turned-blues-turned-soul-turned-jazz-turned-you name it kind of performer who has always defied all the odds!
Music legend Etta James!!! There is not enough people that know your music and that is a dam shame!! So this for you my dear!!
Who is Etta James????
Etta James has seen it all: in a life lived to the full, she has experienced all the ups and downs, the highs and lows, the joy, the pain and then, rejuvenation, reinvention and renewal. Perhaps unlike any one of the dozens of albums she has recorded during a distinguished career that spans five decades, ALL THE WAY could be said to capture - if just one record could possibly do so - a miniature kaleidoscope of the emotions, feelings, expressions and sentiments that this remarkable woman has experienced.
With a range of material that would render most singers helpless, the truly legendary Etta James - a three-time Grammy award winner, NARAS Lifetime Achievement, Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer awardee and W.C. Handy Blues Foundation honoree, who rightfully has her own star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame - shows that when it comes to music that speaks to the soul, she is virtually peerless. After all, who else could tackle Leonard Bernsteins classic, Somewhere, in the space of one record and then give Holding Back The Years, the kind of world-weary workout that makes you say, Simply who? in a reference to the songs originator,Simply Red. It takes a whole lotta raw talent to take on such a feat but then this is Etta James, who recently underwent CHECK NAME OF SURGERY, surgery that resulted in her shedding some 200 pounds. Etta 2006 is, in the words of one of her many classic albums, betta than evah, with a new spring in her step, a new lease on life and of course a new CD that showcases her enduring talent. Now I can flaunt my figure wherever I go, she grins, and I can go shopping and buy those outfits I always wanted to wear!
How many times have we felt that my sisters!! Yeah, no matter how much it pains us we work out our bodies to the point of a model that we will never be and yet this society calls for us to STARVE OURSELVES! Which leads me to a totally different topic completely.....
However, one must vent when necessary, right!! Just to add I hate my trainer I wish I can just be FAT and be SEXY. But, to all my admire's I will not allow that cause, you won't let me!! AHHHHH! I digress sorry...Etta you are beautiful inside and out. Though she is much healthier I imagine she always looked great to me!! For though out there that don't know this woman here is a clip of her touching sounds I love so very much!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyEbeEONnmQ
The song that Etta James recorded as "Roll With Me Henry" (a.k.a. "The Wallflower"). This is a classic folks and well one Etta first appearances.
