Angela Strehli - Blonde & Blue (1993)

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Artist: Angela Strehli
Title: Blonde & Blue
Year Of Release: 1993
Label: Rounder Records
Genre: Blues, Modern Electric Blues
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 37:09
Total Size: 98/241 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Two Bit Texas Town (3:41)
02. Never Lke This Before (2:57)
03. Can't Stop These Teardrops (3:14)
04. You Don't Love Me (4:42)
05. I'm Just Your Fool (3:11)
06. Say It's Not So (3:27)
07. Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um (with Don Covay) (2:56)
08. Go On (3:12)
09. Gotta Find Me A Lover (24 hours To Go) (3:37)
10. The Sun Is Shining (3:48)
11. Going To That City (2:25)

Line-up::
Vocals - Angela Strehli
Bass – Sarah Brown (tracks: 1, 3 to 6, 10), Jonathan Sanborn, John Pierce
Drums – George Rains (tracks: 1, 3 to 6, 10), Will Calhoun, Jim Keltner
Guitar – Derek O'Brien (tracks: 1 to 6, 10), Steve Cropper
Keyboards – Reese Wynans (tracks: 1, 3 to 6, 10), Paul Griffen
Producer – Angela Strehli (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 11), Bill Schnee (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 11)
Saxophone, Harmonica – Mark Kazanoff (tracks: 1, 3 to 6, 10)
Backing Vocals – Annie Stocking, Bonnie Hayes
Horns – The Kamikaze, The Uptown Horns
Trombone – Kent Winking
Trumpet – Keith Winking
Vocals [Duet] – Don Covay
Piano – Billy Payne
Resonator Guitar – Steve James

The danger for modern blues performers is turning into a parody of what you're allegedly celebrating or honoring. Vocalist Angela Strehli avoids that trap by simply being herself; her honesty and individuality make her cover of Major Lance's "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" a legitimate treatment. Strehli's tough-talking personae was tailor-made for such songs as "Two Bit Texas Town" and "Go On," while she managed to register pain without pathos on "Can't Stop These Teardrops" and "I'm Just Your Fool." Only on Elmore James "The Sun Is Shining" did she falter, more because Albert King has established a credible alternate vision of that number. But she makes up for that with the remarkable closing tune "Going to That City." While she doesn't eclipse Sister O.M. Terrell's transcendent original, she comes as close as anyone possibly could to providing a treatment that's just as valid.

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