Read My Lips

Lou Ann Barton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Texas Music Group
• ASIN: B00000DOKN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,282 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #53 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Texas Blues
  • #76 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Contemporary Blues

Track Listings

1. Sugar Coated Love

2. You'll Lose a Good Thing

3. Sexy Ways

4. Shake a Hand

5. Good Lover

6. Mean Mean Man

7. Shake Your Hips

8. Te Ni Nee Ni Nu

9. Can't Believe You Want to Leave

10. You Can Have My Husband

11. It's Raining

12. Rocket in My Pocket

13. I Wonder Why

14. Let's Have a Party

15. High Time We Went

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Austin's Lou Ann Barton displays her sassy blowtorch blues style splendidly on her third recording, on which she receives assistance from friends and former bandmates such as Kim Wilson, David "Fathead" Newman, and current duet partner Jimmie Vaughan (Do You Get the Blues). But Barton, a past member of both Roomful of Blues and an early edition of Stevie Ray Vaughan's band, doesn't really need much help; her amazingly rich, blues-drenched voice is a musical force of nature. Whether using it on a sizzling remake of Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips," digging deep into Irma Thomas's Crescent City classic ballad "It's Raining," or energizing "High Time We Went," Barton saturates her sound with raw emotion and unerring blues sensibilities. Even semi-novelty numbers like Lazy Lester's bayou funk standard "Sugar Coated Love" and the tough-woman anthem "You Can Have My Husband" somehow seem more substantial. She further accentuates her no-nonsense image with superlative takes on Barbara Lynn's "You'll Lose a Good Thing" and renegade country legend Wanda Jackson's "Mean, Mean Man." --Michael Point

Product Description

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Genre: Blues Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 2-JUN-1989

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Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best!, September 28, 2004

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Muiracane (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Read My Lips (Audio CD)

I have had this album since it can out and it has always been one of my absolute favorites. The singing is as good as it gets and the band is top notch. Check out the guitars solos by Jimmie Vaughan on Sugar Coated Love and Ti Ni Nee Ni Nu, Derek O'Brian on You Can Have My Husband and David Grissom on Shake Your Hips. If you want to know what a blues band should sound like, this is IT! I wish this same line up would get together and record something new.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!!!, July 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Read My Lips (Audio CD)

Lou Ann Barton really shines on this album, one red-hot mama! The fast ones are terrific, especially "Te Ni Nee Ni Nu" and "Rocket In My Pocket" (REALLY strange to hear a woman singing that one!!), but the stand-outs are her mid-tempo and slow ones. The best of those are "You'll Lose a Good Thing" and "You Can Have My Husband," but you have to have this album if straight-ahead blues shouting is what gets you off.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Little Bit of Austin While Driving in Your Car, February 28, 2007

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Allan M. Tepper (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Read My Lips (Audio CD)

After a long wait, I finally was able to see Ms. Barton perform with Jimmy Vaughn's band during the Summer 2006 Bob Dylan minor baseball stadium tour. I had purchased this record on vinyl, but I had not listened to it in years. Coming back to it was a real treat. Her voice is strong and sassy. The record is loaded with Austin guitar players (including Denny Freeman who now plays with Dylan), and the players sound like a real band, not just a bunch of guys putting together a studio album. So, if you cannot make it to Austin, or if you are on your way there, play this record and feel the blues.