ETTA JAMES - Live From San Francisco (VBR)
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Artist:
Etta James led a roller-coaster life, sustaining enough spills and thrills to satisfy the wildest daredevil. This live set reflects the ride. Bursting with color, Live in San Francisco is a snapshot from the journey, a record of one remarkable evening when the singer seemed at last, free to purge her soul and impart the joy and pain which gives her art such frightening beauty.It was March of 1981. Etta was forty three and frustrated. Her career, which began when she was five in St. Paul Baptist Church in L.A., had hit a snag. As a child of the Forties, she was a gospel star; as a teenager of the Fifties, she emerged as an R&B pioneer (''Roll With Me, Henry'' was her seminal song of early rock); and as a woman of the Sixties, she became, along with Aretha and Otis, one of the great figures in the Golden Age of Soul (her ''Tell Mama'' ranks with ''Respect'' as an anthem of the epoch). The Seventies, though, was a darker decade. Personal demons drove her in and out of hospitals. Disco did her no favors. Not one to compromise her heart, Etta fought the fashion. ''The music business was going disco crazy,'' she remembers, ''but I wasn't about to start chasing some half-baked fad. I kept singing what I felt like singing -- the stuff I loved best. R&B, or soul, or whatever the hell they were calling it, still sounded good to me.'' Discussing the past with Etta James is a distinct pleasure, perhaps because her present -- and presence -- is rock steady. Enjoying a resurgence of popularity in the Nineties, Etta lives on a luxurious ranchette in the suburbs of Riverside, California, but today she's riding around San Francisco in her Lincoln Towncar, remembering a turning point in her life. A brisk breeze is kicking off the bay; the sky is a cloudless, cobalt blue.
Tracks
1.I Just Want to Make Love to You / 2.Take It to The Limit / 3.Baby What You Want Me To Do / 4.Sugar on the Floor / 5.Tell Mama / 6.I'd Rather Go Blind / 7.Otis Redding Medley (Hard to Handle - Just One More Day - Can't Turn You Loose) / 8.Born Blue.
..year - 1.994
..label - On The Spot
..buy - Amazon
..official website - www.etta-james.com/
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