Joan Armatrading - Into the Blues
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Artist: Joan ArmatradingEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Music Label: 429 Records
Soundtracks:
- Woman in Love
- Play the Blues
- Into the Blues
- Liza
- Secular Songs
- My Baby's Gone
- D.N.A.
- Baby Blue Eyes
- Deep Down
- There Ain't a Girl Alive
- Empty Highway
- Mama Papa
- Something's Gotta Blow
Music reviews of Into the Blues
Music Review: Everybody say this that...This That!
Rating: 5 Stars
Last year Joan rolled into Poughkeepsie and reduced the crowd into a bunch of screaming savages. It was an amazing show. Thanks Joan!
INTO THE BLUES - this is a great CD.. As usual Joan mixes it up, but a thread of the blues runs throughout. Joan broadens the definition of blues and takes us on a journey through various styles, voices and places......she plays everything but the drums! Very nice!
A Woman in Love - A great blues/pop song with an uptempo beat, an understated blues guitar, rapid fire piano playing, and a synth solo for good measure. By the end of the song Joan is singing she "never thought this would happen to me". Maybe she is singing about having a number one blues album!
Play the Blues - A nice bass driven tune with some fancy guitar.
Into the Blues - Love this song! Great guitar solo! Joan manages to mention hip-hop and baroque and give props to the mighty Mud, all in the same song.
Liza - "I see you looking at me!" This bluesy number struts over to the other side of town. One of the bluesier numbers on the CD.
Secular Songs - Joan takes us to church. Beautiful pop/gospel hymn feel to this song and a wall of Joans make a great choir.
My Baby's Gone - a fun upbeat bluesy number featuring Joan on the slide guitar.
DNA - a nice electronica/dance/psychadelic/blues tune. Not sure about the BGs falsetto but the last 2 minutes of Joan and her guitar singing together are brilliant.
Baby Blues Eyes - Joan packs her mandolin and harmonica and heads on down to the Everglades for a backyard dance. A nice folksy bluesy trip.
Deep Down - This repititious song may take a few listens but it will grow on you.
Aint a Girl Alive - Joan and the drummer man let loose on this number that could easily be about Paris Hilton The drummer crashes his way through while Joan scratches out some guitar solos reminiscent of "The Key" album.
Empty Highway - Urban Cowgirl Joan is left downhearted and standing in the rain. Nice westerny blues vibe.
Mama Papa - a funky finger snapper about Joan's life from St Kitts to Birmingham.
Something's Gotta Blow - Joan echoes her way on a claustrophobic train ride. Some great guitar playing and she also tickles the ivories quite nicely.
It would have been cool if the itunes only tune "Alright" was on the CD.
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Congrats on running the NY marathon!
Description of Into the Blues
Into the Blues is the album that Joan Armatrading was always meant to write. Immediately you can tell how much she enjoys playing the blues as her guitar belts out these 13 hits.On the surface, yes, this is a blues album; mostly, though, it's a Joan Armatrading album--which means she'll follow blues forms and conceits wherever she damn well pleases. On "Liza," she takes the "Mannish Boy" groove across the tracks for a pick-up on the wrong side of town; on "There Ain't a Girl Alive (Who Likes to Look in the Mirror Like You Do)," she dresses down a rival; on "Play the Blues," she simply undresses herself to a juicy, contemporary soul groove; and on "Mama Papa," the album's finest and funkiest moment, she recalls her youth on the island of St. Kitts in lines that flash with truth: "Seven people in one room/No heat/One wage/And bills to pay." It's also a guitar album: her blues chops, especially on the sprawling closer "Something's Gotta Blow," would give Robert Cray a serious run. Fiery as her playing can be, her blues riffs are mostly economical, concise, with evocative spaces between the notes. The same can't be said for the overall production values. Armatrading is still enamored with slick gimmicks: doubling and tripling her vocals and adding layers of echo on top of that, and synth pads and distortion that feel more bombastic than bright. Into the Blues is far from a return to form, but it still sends a tough, funky message. --Roy Kasten
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