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As a matter of fact we are docking into past ports a bit here on this retro excursion into protofeminsit diva rock. Sing It! is a blessed event, too -- and a great excuse to visit New Orleans for this "summit meeting" of major minds and throats of three of the most formidable female voices on at least three musical maps today. Other triple threat records take heed: this is exactly how its done, a perfect collaboration done with honor, grace, and deep within the southern traditions of vocal licks-trading, which makes this artifact timeproof. Tracy Nelson has that earth-mother caterwaul as she summons, and we recall, the depths of the '60s as only Tracy Nelson can remind us. Irma Thomas growls ferociously from under a streetlamp and will not let us walk on by. Her sass is matched by Marci Ball's downtown attitude and hunker-down suggestiveness. Spinetinglers to the core, each one. These tunes romp as well as they stomp and successfully mark territories among soul singers, blues artists, country strutters and just plain funky womanity, they way we love our Memphis gals (and how they can scare the crawfish out of a fella). The songs themselves sing of familiar old territories -- deadbeat dads and old lovers, less than rosy rolling in the clover, releasing those Saturday night ya-yas -- but the intensity of each of these hardcore principals bring a resonance to each small moment on the record. Their backup reads like a veritable roster of first-chair Memphis originals, installing that swampy-deep backwoods, diggin-it groove. This is a fine, fine record by three brilliant, completely authentic women: a gem of backwater to runneth over.
© Becky Byrkit /TiVo
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David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irma Thomas, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tracy Nelson, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Digital Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - David Egan, ComposerLyricist - Raymond Weber, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irma Thomas, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tracy Nelson, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Tex, ComposerLyricist - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Mike Reid, ComposerLyricist - David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rory Michael Bourke, ComposerLyricist - Michael Toles, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irma Thomas, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tracy Nelson, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Piano, Digital Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Victor Goines, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Cropper, ComposerLyricist - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irma Thomas, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Nicholson, ComposerLyricist - Tracy Nelson, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Hammond B3, Digital Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Petersen, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jamil Sharif, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Barney Floyd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Victor Goines, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DEADRIC MALONE, ComposerLyricist - Irma Thomas, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tracy Nelson, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Davell Crawford, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Tambourine, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Donnie Fritts, ComposerLyricist - David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tracy Nelson, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Digital Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah E. Campbell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irma Thomas, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tracy Nelson, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Egan, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Victor Goines, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tracy Nelson, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Petersen, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - David Egan, ComposerLyricist - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Jamil Sharif, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Barney Floyd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Hansen, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irma Thomas, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah Brown, ComposerLyricist - Tracy Nelson, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Digital Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Tambourine, Recording Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Composer, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Victor Goines, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Carson Whitsett, ComposerLyricist - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Penn, ComposerLyricist - Irma Thomas, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tracy Nelson, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Hammond B3, Digital Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Petersen, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jamil Sharif, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Barney Floyd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
John Jarvis, ComposerLyricist - David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joe Cabral, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Coyne, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gary Nicholson, ComposerLyricist - Steve Reynolds, Assistant Mixer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Derek Huston, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Victor Goines, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Cropper, ComposerLyricist - Irma Thomas, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tracy Nelson, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reynolds, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Piano, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer - Homer Banks, ComposerLyricist - Ed Petersen, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marcia Ball, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jamil Sharif, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Barney Floyd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
David Farrell, Mixer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Victor Goines, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Toles, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - JERRY RAGOVOY, ComposerLyricist - Irma Thomas, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tracy Nelson, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - DAVID TORKANOWSKY, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Petersen, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Allen Zeno, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Scott Billington, Producer, Recording Producer - Raymond Weber, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Jamil Sharif, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Barney Floyd, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Album review
As a matter of fact we are docking into past ports a bit here on this retro excursion into protofeminsit diva rock. Sing It! is a blessed event, too -- and a great excuse to visit New Orleans for this "summit meeting" of major minds and throats of three of the most formidable female voices on at least three musical maps today. Other triple threat records take heed: this is exactly how its done, a perfect collaboration done with honor, grace, and deep within the southern traditions of vocal licks-trading, which makes this artifact timeproof. Tracy Nelson has that earth-mother caterwaul as she summons, and we recall, the depths of the '60s as only Tracy Nelson can remind us. Irma Thomas growls ferociously from under a streetlamp and will not let us walk on by. Her sass is matched by Marci Ball's downtown attitude and hunker-down suggestiveness. Spinetinglers to the core, each one. These tunes romp as well as they stomp and successfully mark territories among soul singers, blues artists, country strutters and just plain funky womanity, they way we love our Memphis gals (and how they can scare the crawfish out of a fella). The songs themselves sing of familiar old territories -- deadbeat dads and old lovers, less than rosy rolling in the clover, releasing those Saturday night ya-yas -- but the intensity of each of these hardcore principals bring a resonance to each small moment on the record. Their backup reads like a veritable roster of first-chair Memphis originals, installing that swampy-deep backwoods, diggin-it groove. This is a fine, fine record by three brilliant, completely authentic women: a gem of backwater to runneth over.
© Becky Byrkit /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:49:19
- Main artists: Marcia Ball Irma Thomas Tracy Nelson
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rounder
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Blues
© 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc. ℗ 1998 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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