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Etta James: Etta James - Rocks (CD)

1-CD (Digipak) mit 36-seitigem Booklet, 29 Einzeltitel. Gesamtspielzeit ca. 79 min.

  • Mit Etta James widmet sich Bear Family Records® endlich den rockigsten Aufnahmen einer der bedeutendsten und erfolgreichsten Afro-amerikanischen Sängerinnen ihrer Zeit!
  • Sie war gleichermaßen im R&B, Jump, Doo-Wop, hartem Blues, schmachtenden Balladen und heißem Soul unterwegs.
  • Für das CD-Album in der renommierten Rocks-Serie haben wir 29 rockende Nummern aus ihren jungen Karriere mit Aufnahmen für Modern/Kent und Argo/Chess ausgewählt - und Etta konnte wahrlich rocken!
  • Bill Dahl hat die ausführlichen und spannenden Linernotes geschrieben.
  • Im umfangreichen Booklet finden sich viele Fotos und Illustrationen, und für’s Mastern haben wir auf die besten Quellen zugegriffen.

Etta James war vom ersten Tag an leidenschaftlich und hat ein unglaubliches musikalisches Erbe angehäuft, weil sie sich weigerte, ihre stimmlichen Fähigkeiten auf ein bestimmtes Genre zu beschränken. Jumping R&B, Doo-Wop-Balladen, harter Blues, heiße langsame Nummern, brodelnder Soul - Miss Peaches hat in ihrer Anfangszeit im Studio alles ausprobiert. 

'Etta James Rocks' wirft einen ausführlichen Blick auf ihre frühen Jahre des Rockens und Schreiens mit 29 aus den Archiven von Modern/Kent und Chess/Argo gut ausgewählten Titeln.  Natürlich ist ihr R&B-Tophit The Wallflower von 1955 - eine freche Antwort auf Work With Me Annie von The Midnighters - dabei, ebenso wie die Zugabe Hey! Henry, ihr zweiter Modern-Hit Good Rockin' Daddy und der aus New Orleans stammende Kracher Tough Lover, inklusive eines zweistimmigen Lee-Allen-Saxophon-Solos (ihr Crescent City-Remake von The Wallflower ist ebenfalls an Bord, umbenannt in Dance With Me Henry). 

Als Etta zu Beginn der 60er Jahre ihre Plattenfirma von Los Angeles zu Chess in Chicago verlegte, nahm sie neben ihren glühenden Balladen auch rockigere Stücke auf, die oft einen starken Soul-Einschlag hatten: Seven Day Fool, das charmante, an eine Girlgroup angelehnte Pushover und Next Door To The Blues sind großartige Beispiele dafür. 

Ihre knurrige, mit Geige angereicherte Reprise von Willie Dixons I Just Want To Make Love To You setzt die Eckpunkte des Songs neu fest (ebenso wie ihre Duett-Interpretation von Spoonful mit ihrem damaligen Verehrer, dem Moonglows-Gründer Harvey Fuqua). 

Wenn man dann noch zwei Stücke aus ihrem bahnbrechenden Album 'Etta James Rocks The House' hinzufügt, das sie Ende '63 im New Era Club in Nashville aufgenommen hat, weiß man zweifelsfrei: 'Etta James Rocks!'    

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  • Interpret: Etta James

  • Album titlle: Etta James - Rocks (CD)

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AR
  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart CD

  • Genre Rock & Roll

  • EAN: 4000127177506

  • weight in Kg 0.115
James, Etta - Etta James - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01Tough LoverEtta James
02Dance With Me, HenryEtta James
03If It Ain't One ThingBetty & Dupree
04Seven Day FoolEtta James
05W-O-M-A-NEtta James
06Next Door To The BluesEtta James
07Good Rockin' DaddyEtta James
08I'm A FoolEtta James
09Shortnin' Bread RockEtta James
10By The Light Of The Silvery MoonEtta James
11SpoonfulEtta James
12The Wallflower (Roll With Me, Henry)Etta James
13Plum NutsEtta James
14Something's Got A Hold On MeEtta James
15Hickory Dickory DockEtta James
16I Just Want To Make Love To YouEtta James
17Tough MaryEtta James
18Market PlaceEtta James
19Good Lookin'Etta James
20Baby, Baby, EverynightEtta James
21PushoverEtta James
22What'd I SayEtta James
23Baby What You Want Me To DoEtta James
24Strange Things HappeningEtta James
25Hey! HenryEtta James
26The Pick-UpEtta James
27Come What MayEtta James
28My One And OnlyEtta James
29That's AllEtta James
When Etta James sings a heartwarming ballad or a sensual love song, one can confidently... more
"Etta James"

When Etta James sings a heartwarming ballad or a sensual love song, one can confidently assume that she has lived every line of it. Etta had a stormy life full of highs and lows, but she kept getting up and singing.

Born in Los Angeles on January 25, 1938, Jamesetta Hawkins was a five-year-old girl who inspired the congregation of St. Paul Baptist Church, where she sang gospel under the direction of Professor James Earle Hines. Her mother shipped her off to San Francisco at 12. A few years later James formed the vocal group The Creolettes with sisters Jean and Abye Mitchell.

Doo-wop wasn't her only passion. We liked the King Sisters, we liked James Moody and'How Deep Is The Ocean', we loved Dave Brubeck, we loved Gerry Mulligan', says Etta James. The trio saw Hank Ballard and his Midnighters at a dance performance, and they were so excited about their Work With Me Annie that they wrote a reply song, Roll With Me Henry. One of the Mitchells met bandleader Johnny Otis at the Primalon Ballroom and persuaded her sister and James to take a taxi and come to the audition at Otis' hotel. When they arrived, the teenager Etta got a little queasy in the face of this late evening situation. I was so shy,' she says.'He said,'Go to the bathroom and sing!It worked - Otis immediately booked a studio in L.A. and produced the song for Modern under the less suggestive title The Wallflower.

The vocal group became The Peaches and Jamesetta Hawkins also got a new name from Otis. "He knew my first name was Jamesetta,' she says.'He just turned it around and called me Etta James.'" The Wallflower topped the R&B charts in 1955, but Georgia Gibbs' embarrassingly boring cover version destroyed any hope of a pop crossover success for Etta James switched to the Chess sub-label Argo in 1960. Leonard Chess was a real record manager,' says Etta, whose friend Harvey Fuqua of the Moonglows aroused her interest in singing old standards like At Last and Trust In Me.

These string lined ballads made her a star in 1961,'I remember Leonard walking through the control room, I saw him through the separation window,' says Etta. The hits dwindled, so Chess sent Etta to Muscle Shoals in August 1967 - a change that refreshed her career with the fervently hot R&B top ten success of Tell Mama.

Rick Hall's rhythm section included keyboardists Spooner Oldham and Barry Beckett, guitarists Jimmy Johnson and Junior Lowe, bassist David Hood and drummer Roger Hawkins, surrounded by a full load of horns. On the back of Tell Mama, released on Chess' Cadet label, was the moving I'd Rather Go Blind. A guy named Ellington Jordan was in prison in Los Angeles. He was at Chino Prison,' says Etta. He said:'I want you to visit me here in the institution, because I have a great song. But I only have part of it.' So we went there to visit him. You had a day room with a piano. And he started playing on it and said:'All we have to do here is put a bridge on it, then we've got it. "We'll share it." I said, "Okay." I sat there with him, we added a bridge and got it all going. Then we went home and everyone was crazy about it. "I owed the state money at the time, so we ended up giving the name of my son's father (as co-author)." Jordan recorded the song in 1969 for Chess under the exotic artist name Fugi. I'd Rather Go Blind was a hit for Chicken Shack that same year on Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label in England with Christine Perfect as singer - soon after she married, was called Christine McVie and joined Fleetwood Mac.

Bill Dahl from PLUG IT IN! TURN IT UP! electric blues 1939-2005 - The Definitive Collection! "Plug It In! Turn It Up - Electric Blues 1939 - 2005" on Bear Family Records won the prestigious award in the category'Best historical album' at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tenneessee, on May 9th. The unique 12-part CD documentary provides for the first time a comprehensive view of the history of this important genre, irrespective of the boundaries that individual record companies point out. Our author Bill Dahl from Chicago was there and accepted the prize in front of about 1,300 blues musicians, journalists and fans. The Blues Music Awards, which are presented annually in Memphis for the best Blues releases, are considered the most important award worldwide and are also called the'Oscars of the Blues'.

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Tracklist
James, Etta - Etta James - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01 Tough Lover
02 Dance With Me, Henry
03 If It Ain't One Thing
04 Seven Day Fool
05 W-O-M-A-N
06 Next Door To The Blues
07 Good Rockin' Daddy
08 I'm A Fool
09 Shortnin' Bread Rock
10 By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
11 Spoonful
12 The Wallflower (Roll With Me, Henry)
13 Plum Nuts
14 Something's Got A Hold On Me
15 Hickory Dickory Dock
16 I Just Want To Make Love To You
17 Tough Mary
18 Market Place
19 Good Lookin'
20 Baby, Baby, Everynight
21 Pushover
22 What'd I Say
23 Baby What You Want Me To Do
24 Strange Things Happening
25 Hey! Henry
26 The Pick-Up
27 Come What May
28 My One And Only
29 That's All