Friday, January 20, 2012
Etta James
If you know Etta James only as "Dance With Me, Henry" & "At Last," you got some listening to do. Los Angeles Times writer Randy Lewis calls Etta "Perhaps the quintessential R&B diva .... equally at home singing unadulterated blues, searing R&B and sophisticated jazz..." Etta died only days after bandleader Johnny Otis, who "discovered" her when she was a teenager in Los Angeles.
Etta wasn't a weak-voiced pretender who needed double-tracked vocals, special software to keep her voice in tune, & the pseudo-soul technique of singing every note except the one in the melody.
Carrie's Bar & Grill posted a small but choice tribute to Etta.
Etta wasn't a weak-voiced pretender who needed double-tracked vocals, special software to keep her voice in tune, & the pseudo-soul technique of singing every note except the one in the melody.
Carrie's Bar & Grill posted a small but choice tribute to Etta.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Thanks for the hit. You do have it right about Etta best known for being both R&B and rock & roll (although we called it "soul music" at that time, and rock and roll was still just called rock, because the roll part was mostly associated with the likes of Elvis, et al.)
I would love to put up all my Etta songs, but given this era of purging links and all that, I have a hard enough time just escaping the take downs! (winking, cuz only those that have experienced the internets taking your posts down know what I mean)
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I would love to put up all my Etta songs, but given this era of purging links and all that, I have a hard enough time just escaping the take downs! (winking, cuz only those that have experienced the internets taking your posts down know what I mean)
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