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Life Love and the Blues
 
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Life Love and the Blues
~ Etta James (Artist)
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Track Listings

1. Born Under A Bad Sign
2. I Want To Ta Ta You Baby
3. Running Out Of Lies
4. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
5. Spoonful
6. Life Love And The Blues
7. Hoochie Coochie Gal
8. Cheating In The Next Room
9. If You Want Me To Stay
10. Love You Save (May Be Your Own)
11. I'll Take Care Of You
12. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Etta James followed her two deeply jazzy mid-1990s albums of torch songs with Love's Been Rough on Me, a flirtation with Nashville writers. On Life, Love & the Blues, she returns to her blues and soul repertoire, enlivening even the hoariest of tunes ("Spoonful", a gender-flopped "Hoochie Coochie Gal") with her growl. The tinges of funk underpinning "Born Under a Bad Sign" are given full room to stretch on a cover of Sly Stone's "If You Want Me to Stay", and James nearly swipes "The Love You Save May Be Your Own", one of Joe Tex's great preaching ballads, from the master. --Rickey Wright

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Etta James' fine self-produced LIFE, LOVE & THE BLUES toutsitself as a straight blues album, the one Etta says she always wanted to record. This isn't entirely accurate, since the smart choice of tunes here includes Al Green's "Here I Am (Come And Take Me)" and Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues". But why quibble with a legend, especially since she delivers the goods with such class and professionalism?
By 1998, her voice had lost some of its upper purity but hardly any ofits flexibility and force. She's not riding any past glory as she steps forthrightly into Albert King's "Born Under A Bad Sign" like she owns it, as well as modern blues classics like Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" and "Hoochie Coochie Man (Gal)". Speaking of ownership, Etta co-wrote the title song - a smoldering statement of purpose cut with some fine slide acoustic work courtesy of her ace back-up guys, The Roots Band.

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