Going Back to Mississippi

Nora Jean Bruso | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 21, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Severn
• ASIN: B0002VEYMM
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #289,016 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An awesome album with Carl Weathersby performing great guitar, February 5, 2006

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Duane Odonnell (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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Nora is a moving performer, and Carl Weathersby is in fine form as he contributes his firey guitar to compositions.

5.0 out of 5 stars Nora Jean Bruso, going back to mississppi, November 5, 2011

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This review is from: Going Back to Mississippi (Audio CD)

she has more soul than the next forty top forty singers put together so the twenty word requirement is met

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inspired by Koko; now living her dream, August 19, 2006

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Mark R. Van Wagenen "viagracat" (Elgin, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Going Back to Mississippi (Audio CD)

Her story is what blues songs are written about--once a worker at a cotton gin in the Mississippi delta, Nora Jean Wallace one night boarded a bus headed to Chicago to answer her calling--singing the blues. Her inspiration was Koko Taylor, who told her to stick with it after a gig at the Chicago Blues Festival in 2004, and it shows. Many of the selection's lyrics refer to the tough times that she apparently experienced in her younger days; others take a sassy look at life and relationships; but the CD's best track is "Miss Mae's Juke Joint"; a joyful look at how working folks unwind at the club. Another track; "Tearful Blues" is an unusual jazz-blues fusion that will surprise you as it is totally different from the rest of the CD; but it works. Her band is strong; with Carl Weathersby the guitarist on most of the tracks. Her voice takes some getting used to; it's huge and raw even on the slower, gentler tracks; a little finesse and restraint is in order here. She's no Shemekia Copeland; not yet at least. But if Koko Taylor saw promise in her; that's good enough for me. Fans of Koko Taylor or Shemekia Copeland should like this one.