The blues roots of this remarkable contralto run deep on this 1993 release. Both before and since her late 60's days with Mother Earth, she has demonstrated that she can sing the blues with a power and emotion that is rarely matched. Here she pays tribute to the music that inspired her, more in the urban R&B vein than the acoustic country blues many of us recall from her 1965 debut Deep Are the Roots... although this album does include Motherless Child Blues, which also appeared on that out-of-print classic. We'd give anything to have that early album back in our catalog, but in its absence, here's the next best thing. The closing track, Please Send Me Someone To Love, features a duet vocal with Irma Thomas, soul queen of New Orleans."

Nelson,Tracy