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Blues to the Bone

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Released
  
2004 (2004)

Length
  
47:53

Blues to the Bone (2004)
  
All the Way (2006)

Release date
  
2004

Recorded
  
2004

Label
  
RCA Victor

Artist
  
Etta James

Genres
  
Blues, Rhythm and blues

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Producers
  
Etta James, Donto James, Sametto James

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

Similar
  
Etta James albums, Blues albums

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Blues to the Bone is a 2004 album by Etta James. The album contains a selection of twelve blues standards which are among her favourites. James and her sons Donto and Sametto James produced the album, which reached number four in the Billboard Top Blues chart.

Contents

The album was given a Grammy Award in 2005 for Best Traditional Blues Album.

Critical reception

Allmusic gave the album a rating of four out of five, calling it "a solid album of no-frills, gutbucket performances".

Track listing

  1. "I Got My Mojo Working" (Preston Foster) – 3:34
  2. "Don't Start Me to Talking" (Sonny Boy Williamson II) – 2:52
  3. "Hush Hush" (Jimmy Reed) – 3:34
  4. "Lil' Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 3:54
  5. "That's Alright" (Jimmy Rogers) – 3:42
  6. "Crawlin' King Snake" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:32
  7. "Dust My Broom" (Robert Johnson) – 3:35
  8. "The Sky Is Crying" (Elmore James) – 3:59
  9. "Smokestack Lightnin'" (Howlin' Wolf) – 6:50
  10. "You Shook Me" (Dixon, J. B. Lenoir) – 3:51
  11. "Driving Wheel" (Roosevelt Sykes) – 2:59
  12. "Honey, Don't Tear My Clothes" (Lightnin' Hopkins) – 3:31

Personnel

  • Etta James – vocals
  • John "Juke" Logan – harmonica
  • Josh Sklair, Bobby Murray – guitars
  • Brian Ray – guitar, slideguitar
  • Sametto James – bass
  • Donto Metto James – drums
  • Mike Finegan – piano
  • Songs

    1Got My Mojo Working3:35
    2Don't Start Me To Talking2:51
    3Hush Hush3:35

    References

    Blues to the Bone Wikipedia