Heard this girl for the first time on the Juke Joints record earlier this year. Blues artists and aficionados in the States picked up on her a couple of years ago and that has transferred into some impressive sales on that niche chart for this release and the previous one as well. I've seen her called a "triple threat" for her playing, singing, and writing. I'll admit that she's a pretty good guitarist, better with a slide, though a few notes here and there on "Unconditional" sound off ever so slightly. As a singer she's OK, better live than studio, but another post very soon will include what I consider to be a real singer. For the writing, she contributed eight of the songs here and I will keep two, so not so much. Here is the title track for you to judge for yourself...
Not many guitarists wear short dresses and high heels this well, huh? But this is a strong example of the wrapping overshadowing the contents. What surprised me about this "blues" record was the inclusion of classic soul, jazz, and rock (which is the style of one of the keeper tracks). She's been known to cover dearly departed slingers like Hendrix and Vaughan, but really isn't worthy of doing so if you ask me. And next album, have the engineer back off the some of that high-end range, would ya? A couple of tracks had so much sssssssssstttttttt on them that I thought my tinnitus was acting up. Downright obnoxious. Can only imagine how annoying they were to someone with clear hearing.
Regardless of all my bitch & moans, it's really not all that bad............................................for a girl.
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