'I dedicated my last album to the great men of the blues. I decided to do this one for the women. I wanted to do an album that would be truthful, one that women would love.' On her 1999 release, bearing a dedication to Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae, one of the world's premier singers explores the heights and depths of a lovelorn life, through standards such as You Don't Know What Love Is and Only Women Bleed. Her deep throaty voice holds strong over the sweeping movements that draw us in to a cathartic sense of loss, leaving us, whomever we have loved, nodding our heads with sad rememberance. And though many of these tracks have graced the throats of legends like Billie and Ella, Etta's modern blues interpretation makes them all her own.

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