Album Description
Etta James can moan the blues, sing sweet soul music, croon smooth jazz, and belt out R&B. In short, she can do it all! Like many great blues performers, James is best experienced live. In the early 1980s, she played mostly smaller clubs, and it was during one of these appearances in New York that this exciting live album was recorded.
A legend in her own time, James influenced Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Gladys Knight, and countless other successful female soloists and her pioneering 1950s hit "Roll With Me Henry (The Wallflower)" substantiates her place in the early history of rock `n' roll alongside such icons as Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Ray Charles.
