Joanna Connor Band

Joanna Connor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 28, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: M.C. Records
• ASIN: B000065V7M
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #358,930 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fine & Sublime

2. Long, Long Road

3. No Black Or White

4. Luna Love

5. Different Kind Of War

6. Slipping Into Darkness

7. Six Child

8. Guitar Dove

9. Fever

10. Minor Love

11. Somebody Have Mercy

12. White Lines

13. Afrissippi

14. Morning Praise

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Different but good, March 6, 2003

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Sylvain Chartrand (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joanna Connor Band (Audio CD)

If you like the blues and only blues you should pass on that one. But the former blueser-bluesrocker Joanna Connor did something different for her latest release. This is rock, funk, bluesy and on all directions. But the feeling is still present. The band play tight and Joanna plays with emotion like she used to do with her blues. Yep! Different but good.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Blues Evolve, June 30, 2003

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Brent L. Godfrey (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Joanna Connor Band (Audio CD)

Her best CD since "Big Girl Blues". It is refreshing to hear the Blues evolve.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "Afrissippi" says it all..., January 7, 2010

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Diamond Dave (CHICAGO, the Home of the Blues) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joanna Connor Band (Audio CD)

Someone told me Connor was like the reigning queen of electric guitar blues. I hope not. I found this album fairly un-special in almost every way. To my ears, she is an average vocalist, the guitar licks sounded just ok, if not plentiful, and the songs are pedestrian at best. What really troubled me was how herky-jerky the tunes were over all. Nothing very catchy at all, especially her self penned tunes. The syncopation or beats are all sort off, off beat, almost jazz-like. That is never a good thing for me. I don't care who says that jazz and blues are cousins, in my library jazz has no place next to my BLUES.
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It says even more that the tunes I found most accessible were her covers. I very much enjoyed WAR's "Slipping into Darkness", it was funky and loose and fun. While I can't recall any one covering "White Lines" before, and one of the last places I expected to hear an old school rap song from the 80's is on a "Blues' CD, but she pulls off a decent instrumental take on that early rap classic. Both of those covers make sense because, like I said, she delivers most every tune in a clunky, chunky, push-and-pull style that suits both those songs. The most enjoyable track was an unexpected version of SAM CO0KE'S "Somebody Have Mercy". Naturally since I enjoy R&B, SOUL, GOSPEL & Blues, that song worked for me, and her voice was well suited for this track.
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The CD ends with a couple of down-home, rootsy tracks. I guess one is supposed to be a bridge between African homeland and present day Mississippi. Maybe. Sort of a spoken word thing that was pretty weak. She closes with the really tepid ode to praise in the morning. Yuck.
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I don't know, I recall hearing a Connor live CD that was pretty good and her most recent one sounded ok, but this one was hardly worth the time, but worth criticizing, since I wrote this.