Janet Lynn - Tainted Rose (2015)

Tracklist

01. Crazy About You
02. It Hurts Me Too
03. Tainted Rose
04. Wet Match
05. Misty Blue
06. Get Your Own Coffee
07. Sugar Coated Love
08. Sweet Daddy
09. I Never Had It so Good
10. Three Strikes
11. Masquerade

As far as I can tell, Louisiana blueswoman Janet Lynn’s 2002 debut, “Tainted Rose,” is her only solo album, and that’s a shame.

Lynn’s voice washes over listeners with a combination of sexiness and sweetness in much the same way that Lou Ann Barton’s does. Listen to Lynn’s and Barton’s recording of “Sugar Coated Love” back to back and you can hear the same impish spirit bursting through their powerful vocals.

Lynn’s at her best when she’s barreling through a song. She romps through the swinging “Sweet Daddy” and the swampy blues “Crazy About You.” But she can scorch listeners with a ballad, too, as she does on a cover of Dorothy Moore’s soul classic “Misty Blue.” And on the album’s title track, which is sure to please Janis Joplin fans, Lynn’s voice throbs with a sensuous roughness.

There’s nothing rough about Lynn’s rendition of the jazz standard “The Masquerade is Over,” titled “Masquerade.” The song’s one more example of her versatility and talent.

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