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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant Album, beautiful woman, incredible music,
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This review is from: Into the Blues (Audio CD)
Since I saw this tiny young woman with this incredibly rich voice on a stage in Illinois somewhere in the early 80s, I have followed Joan with every album.
This is by and large one of her best albums ever. It's bluesy, yes, but it also showcases her incredible voice even on the non-blues songs and such songs as Baby Blue Eyes and There Aint a Girl alive are good examples. The music has never been more varied and interesting. DNA is a masterpiece of rock and roll and of course the numerous traditional hard blues songs ala Buddy Guy show just how talented Ms. Armatrading is. This album should not be missed by one of Rock's most underated and influencial artists.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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JOAN ARMATRADING CONFOUNDS EXPECTATIONS AND TAKES IT TO A NEW LEVEL,
This review is from: Into the Blues (Audio CD)
For decades Joan Armatrading has been adored as an articulate troubador singing about matters of the heart, a singer-songwriter who was too soulful to pigeon-hole as a folksinger but whose superbly dispassionate delivery only highlighted the passion of her subject matter.
If that's what you're looking for, you will not find it here. Joan has plugged in and recreated standard blues, getting downright giddy in this "woe is me" art form. For example, on the title tune "Into The Blues," with its haunting keyboards, Joan sings "the blues are here to make you glad you took a different path." On "Play The Blues" she sings "Baby when you sing the blues I take all my clothes off for you" and on the celebratory "Deep Down" the standard blues is boiled down to one sentence "I love you baby - deep down." No doom and gloom here. The purest blues song thematically on the CD is probably "Empty Highway" with its "I stand outside in my underwear and watch the gentle rain fall down" refrain. The variety of the blues here is wide, from the poppy, acoustic "Baby Blues Eyes" with its anti-depressive lyric "those little imperfections are what I love about you/baby blue eyes and the smile of an angel" to the sothern fried reminiscence of "Mama Papa" which brings early Tina Turner to mind, to the uptempo blues shuffle of "D.N.A." and the straight up rocking blues of "There Ain't A Girl Alive" which is a screed about a vain woman that just cries out to be covered by The Rolling Stones. Personally my favorite is the evocative "Secular Songs" which successfully lyrically walks the fine line of lambasting the changes in religion while reaffirming our ongoing need for spiritual growth ("They're singing secular songs in the churches/and there's not a word of God/It's all Schubert and Beethoven or lots of French love songs") From the opening strains of the propulsive "A Woman In Love" to the closing notes of the explosive "Something's Gotta Blow" with its doubletracked vocal, "Into The Blues" is sheer brilliance, the fully mature display of an outstanding artist willing to tinker with the expected and take risks. Joan Armatrading finally lets loose and shows some emotion and the results are superior, all the more so for being so unexpected. This is a CD you'll be listening to for a long, long time.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The reclusive lady sings the blues !,
By the bomba (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Into the Blues (Audio CD)
The hugely influential and pioneering British singer-songwriter, is back with a brand new studio CD.
The reclusive legend tries her hand at the blues and proves quite a dab hand at it. She basically plays everything here bar the drums and manages to inject everything with a sense of drive and passion. As always, her silky-smooth voice is the real star. Joan's new album is the latest in a long line of fabulous releases dating back to her wonderfully successful breakthrough albums in the late 70s and early 80s such as Show Some Emotion, To the Limit and Me Myself I . She remains an utterly compelling writer and performer of unique warmth. She cites "Into The Blues" as her best work yet. "I've wanted to make an album that truly reflected me and I think this does. I love the blues and while each song is very different there's a cohesive thread that runs throughout". Her 19th album is a celebration the blues, which she describes as "the bedrock of modern music". Her rich, mellow vocal suits the blues, as does her accomplished guitar playing. She really enjoys playing all those well-oiled blues riffs on her trusty electric guitar to ornament her compositions. One of them, "Baby Blue Eyes", features some impressive acoustic strumming, which adds a more earthy texture. Always bold and unpredictable, Joan Armatrading has come to Muddy Waters relatively late, but better late than never. This is an eclectic mix of blues-inspired songs that should please her loyal fans.
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