Jan 10, 2006 Listen free to Etta James â The Definitive Collection (The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry), Good Rockin' Daddy and more). 23 tracks (79:32). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.
The standard-bearers thus far have been the Chess Box and the Essential Etta James. This set attempts to do something else and goes deep into her catalog to dig out the gems from her years with Modern, Argo, Cadet, Chess, Warner Brothers, Island, and Private Music/BMG, and presents the full spectrum of her five-decade career. As such, there are many different kinds of songs here revealing the complexity of the vocalist herself, and as such, thus becomes a real portrait of the artist. Juxtapose, for instance, early sides like 'The Wallflower Dance (Dance With Me Henry),' with its wild R&B bravado and the deep soul-blues of 'All I Could Do Is Cry,' the balladry of 'The Man I Love,' the bone-crushing blues of 'The Sky Is Crying,' and the torch song ballad technique on 'My Dearest Darling,' and the despairing soul inherent in songs such as 'All the Way Down,' and the listener begins to get an idea of just how vast and deep James talent really is. These 23 cuts give a fine and full picture of all that diversity without sacrificing a note of quality. This is a fine introduction to James for those listeners who have become acquainted with her in recent years, and a decent look at the later material for those cynical purists who think it was over and done by 1970. Recommended.n','editsPending':false},'collapse':true,'entity':{'entityType':'release_group','gid':'a9957c09-d362-3130-8c8f-5e2e29dd1c2d','latest_annotation':{'id':724265,'text':'The standard-bearers thus far have been the Chess Box and the Essential Etta James. This set attempts to do something else and goes deep into her catalog to dig out the gems from her years with Modern, Argo, Cadet, Chess, Warner Brothers, Island, and Private Music/BMG, and presents the full spectrum of her five-decade career. As such, there are many different kinds of songs here revealing the complexity of the vocalist herself, and as such, thus becomes a real portrait of the artist. Juxtapose, for instance, early sides like 'The Wallflower Dance (Dance With Me Henry),' with its wild R&B bravado and the deep soul-blues of 'All I Could Do Is Cry,' the balladry of 'The Man I Love,' the bone-crushing blues of 'The Sky Is Crying,' and the torch song ballad technique on 'My Dearest Darling,' and the despairing soul inherent in songs such as 'All the Way Down,' and the listener begins to get an idea of just how vast and deep James talent really is. These 23 cuts give a fine and full picture of all that diversity without sacrificing a note of quality. This is a fine introduction to James for those listeners who have become acquainted with her in recent years, and a decent look at the later material for those cynical purists who think it was over and done by 1970. Recommended.','changelog':null,'parent':null,'creation_date':'2018-06-06T16:05:22Z','editor':{'is_limited':false,'id':1435831,'is_wiki_transcluder':false,'is_relationship_editor':false,'birth_date':null,'email':'[email protected]','is_location_editor':false,'website':null,'is_bot':false,'registration_date':'2015-10-30T11:19:44Z','gravatar':'//gravatar.com/avatar/placeholder?d=mm','is_editing_disabled':false,'is_admin':false,'deleted':false,'is_auto_editor':false,'is_account_admin':false,'entityType':'editor','preferences':{'subscribe_to_created_series':false,'show_gravatar':false,'timezone':'UTC','public_ratings':true,'email_on_no_vote':true,'subscriptions_email_period':'daily','public_subscriptions':true,'email_on_notes':false,'email_on_vote':false,'public_tags':true,'subscribe_to_created_labels':false,'subscribe_to_created_artists':false,'datetime_format':'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z'},'is_banner_editor':false,'email_confirmation_date':'2015-10-30T11:44:30Z','biography':'rock','name':'oparin1954'},'html':'
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The standard-bearers thus far have been the Chess Box and the Essential Etta James. This set attempts to do something else and goes deep into her catalog to dig out the gems from her years with Modern, Argo, Cadet, Chess, Warner Brothers, Island, and Private Music/BMG, and presents the full spectrum of her five-decade career. As such, there are many different kinds of songs here revealing the complexity of the vocalist herself, and as such, thus becomes a real portrait of the artist. Juxtapose, for instance, early sides like 'The Wallflower Dance (Dance With Me Henry),' with its wild R&B bravado and the deep soul-blues of 'All I Could Do Is Cry,' the balladry of 'The Man I Love,' the bone-crushing blues of 'The Sky Is Crying,' and the torch song ballad technique on 'My Dearest Darling,' and the despairing soul inherent in songs such as 'All the Way Down,' and the listener begins to get an idea of just how vast and deep James talent really is. These 23 cuts give a fine and full picture of all that diversity without sacrificing a note of quality. This is a fine introduction to James for those listeners who have become acquainted with her in recent years, and a decent look at the later material for those cynical purists who think it was over and done by 1970. Recommended.
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Etta James (1938-2012) was a U.S. blues, soul, R&B, rock & roll, and jazz singer and songwriter. She is the winner of four Grammies, seventeen Blues Music Awards, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (in 1993), the Blues Hall of Fame (in 2001), and the Grammy Hall of Fame (in both 1999 and 2008). James was born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles, California, on 25th January 1938, to an unmarried fourteen-year-old mother, Dorothy Hawkins. According to Etta, her mother claimed that her father was the white Rudolph 'Minnesota Fats' Wanderone, and tha⦠read more
Etta James (1938-2012) was a U.S. blues, soul, R&B, rock & roll, and jazz singer and songwriter. She is the winner of four Grammies, seventeen Blues Music Awards, and was inducted ⦠read more
Etta James (1938-2012) was a U.S. blues, soul, R&B, rock & roll, and jazz singer and songwriter. She is the winner of four Grammies, seventeen Blues Music Awards, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (in 1993⦠read more
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