Regina Bonelli - Truth Hurts (2022) [CD Rip]

Regina Bonelli has the kind of voice that makes you sit up and pay attention. Truth Hurts, her new album (due out early 2022, on True Groove Records), is a tour de force where modern blues and vintage soul melt together into a whole new musical animal. "Even though I'd been performing for years before Love Letter come out," she notes (commenting on her critically-acclaimed debut album from 20.l8 that spent on astounding 60 weeks on the Soul-Blues charts,) "and I'd worked as a backup singer on other people's records, the whole experience of recording on album of original material is always o learning process.lt was great, and I was very happy with the way it come out, but as time went on and we started working together more and more, I knew we could dig deeper I think this is really the first time we've been able to capture the intensity of what it's like when we ploy live I played the record for my son the other day, he's in his mid-2Os, and he said, 'Mom, you're this really dynamic performer and this record really captures that spirit " Backed by the True Groove All-Stars (and under the longtime production guidance of Tomas Doncker and James Dellotacoma), Bonelli taps into the emotional core that lies of the heart of the album's six originals and three select covers to exacting results. It's not so much that she's wearing her heart on her sleeve as she is drawing every drop of emotion out of each track and leaving o pool of tears - both the joyful and sorrowful varieties - in her woke. "Sometimes life deals you o hand you aren't expecting and you've just got to play it. When I'm singing. everything that comes out is true; it's coming right from the body, from the inside to the outside. Sometimes the way it comes out seems like a kind of desperation, other times it's very cathartic, I write from experience, Certain truths are not the most pleasant or romantic things. Truth hurts, but the truth can set you free. I really believe that it's like, OK, now l can breathe," In this case Truth Hurls yields nothing but musical pleasure.