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Marcia Ball

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: April 1985
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder / Umgd
• ASIN: B00000034A
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #78,169 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
This relentlessly upbeat album, Marcia Ball's second for Rounder, marks her 1985 graduation from the Louisiana-Texas "crawfish circuit" to the national scene. But it still packs the freewheeling feel of her four-sets-a-night years. These 10 tunes dash through soul ("I'm Gonna Forget About You"), R&B ("Don't You Know I Love You"), blues ("Another Man's Woman"), rock & roll (Ball's own "That's Enough of That Stuff"), and zydeco (the Clifton Chenier-penned title track) with such gleeful abandon they seem to pass in a flash. All the while, Ball--who's joined by her three-piece band and a visiting horn section--makes like a female Jerry Lee Lewis, pounding her piano with bare- knuckled virtuosity as she shouts and swoops through her good-time lyrics. Drummer Doyle Bramhall went on from this recording to write "The House Is Rockin'," "Tightrope," and "Wall of Denial" for Stevie Ray Vaughan. --Ted Drozdowski

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Rockin' Blues and Dynamite Piano Playin' in the World, January 2, 1999

By A Customer

Saw Marcia Ball in New Orleans at the Jazz Fest in 1990 and bought this album on tape cassette at the fest. Played it so much, the tape broke within a month. Hard to say which song is the best, they are all excellent rockin' songs. Also,hard to say that this is the best album, Gatorythems & Blue House is also superb. Marcia is just an all around great musician and is the best rockin' bules piano playin' gal out there. Enjoy the album and work on getting the rest of her collection, I just ordered the last album that I did not have, Dreams Come True. Looking forward to hearing all of it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Upbeat music to rock those blues away, November 24, 2002

By	Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

From the opening track, Never like this before (a cover of a sixties soul song), this album rocks. Marcia wrote two of the songs herself (Love's spell and That's enough of that stuff) and draws on a variety of sources for the other songs, including soul, R+B, blues and zydeco - the latter represented by the title track, originally written by Clifton Chenier.

Yet the overall feel of the album is rock'n'roll update for 1985 (when this album was recorded). Comparisons with Jerry Lee Lewis are understandable - Marcia plays the piano in a similar style to Jerry. Not much tinkling of the ivories here - they take a real pounding on some of the tracks.

Although this is a very upbeat album, there are a few slower songs to vary the pace, and Marcia is well capable of singing those as well as the rockers.

This is one of Marcia's earliest albums, but it still sounds fresh and exciting. Rock your blues away with this or any other album by Marcia, who is brilliant at what she does.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The lady rock., February 3, 2007

By	jkp371 (Chicagoland) - See all my reviews

Marcia Ball is one of the countless legend of rockers who have toured the Bars across American forever. She have made a living being a bar band. The best thing about her concert is that at the end of the evening, as you walking to your car, about all you can say is "wow, that was fun." This pretty much somes her up. Her free style, top tapping, good time show, is captured here on this album. Starting with teh sone "Never like this before" and running to "Un-Uh Baby". If you are not a fan of her music, then this is a great place to start.