Philly girl can play with the men just fine!
author: Phillyblues.com
For her first effort, Philadelphia native and local blues verteran "Sister Blue" proves that girls can play the blues everybit as well as the men. What is immdediately noticable about this CD is the simplicity and purity of the music. Where so many bands have gone with heavy production and horn sections, Sister Blue is playing it just the way you will hear it live. Her voice is clean, strong and the lyrics are delivered with a feeling that she has lived all of what she sings about. The arrangements have a delta influence and it's clear this Philly girl has done her homework. Sister Blue also throws in a couple acoustic numbers; demonstrating that what it really all boils down to is a girl and her guitar singing about her hopes, dreams and her pains.
And as you listen to this CD, you can't help but feel good in the knowledge that the future of blues is secure in the hands of musicians like Sister Blue.
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Really enjoying this CD. Great sounds.
author: Jack Kapenstein
I can't believe how much passion comes out in this music. Love the lyrics and the bluesiness. Haven't heard anything this good from an unheralded artist in decades.
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This Sister's Got The Blues
author: Reading Eagle
There is nothing subtle here. We're talking blues, blues, and more blues.
The result is a smooth but emotional wail that walks the line between self-parody and soul searching.
She does both well-having fun with the genre while never denying the depths of the desolation that evoked it in the first place. This is how she gets away with lines like "If you go messin' with my mind/ I'm gonna whoop your behind from If You Go Messin' With My Mind.
The original songs are fun and rocking, and played with relish.
Red, White, & Sister Blue is, on it's own merits, a remarkably listenable album" ..."a passionate slab of heartfelt and fun blues that will lift the listener up from the depths by that simple commiseration.
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