The Best Of Etta James

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That being said, I recently had sinus surgery to deal with pressure in my ears and have since been able to hear things I previously was unable to and have noticed on repeated listenings that there are a number of moments where you can hear odd bass as if someone was blowing on a hot mic. For writing credits in her early career she used the last name from a couple that took care of her as a child, Jamesetta Rogers and on a rare occasion her real name Jamesetta Hawkins. If you enjoy our site, please consider supporting us by sparing a few seconds to disable your ad blocker. They're more audible because the bottom end seems more enhanced than in other versions I have of these recordings, so other reviews are onto an issue.

Etta James – Collected (2021, 180g, Vinyl) - Discogs

Obviously everything is sourced digitally and you can really tell on some songs, especially the older stuff. This one looks beautiful and despite the fact it's a digital source, obviously, it sounds very good. This pressing reproduces - with some attenuation - microphone plosives and pops that were part of a few of the original Chicago recording sessions. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!They're not system-destroying but rather a humorous snapshot of a time over sixty years ago when a recording engineer failed to keep Ms. This is a reissue of Etta James - The Best Of Etta James, originally released in 1962 on Crown Records (2). Ask most musicians, and Etta James will certainly show up in their music collection, probe a bit deeper, and those same musicians will admit to Etta James’ influence, but ask the fans of these same artists, and most of them, if honest, will admit that they’ve never listened on even one Etta James song . it´s weird, but the girl in this cover doesn´t seem to be actually Etta James itself: no freckle, darker sking, bigger mouth and eyes. Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution.

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At Last is the Etta James album that belongs in everyone’s collection, it’s been rated by Rolling Stone as one of the Top 50 albums of all time, and though recorded back in 1961 [her first on the Chess Label], after an absence from the music scene for a few years, rocketed this brilliant woman right back to the top of the charts, where she laid out “Stormy Weather,” a jazz standard, like it had never been heard before, then flips like a pancake too hot to handle, and walks all over “I Just Want To Make Love To You,” a blues’ classic by Willie Dixon that inspired the likes of Janis Joplin, Mama Cass Eliot, and yes, even Jimi Hendrix, allowing a woman, for one of the first times in musical history, to stand toe to toe with the boys, creating a solid album of emotional classics, sung not from the heart, but from the gut, where she laces her songs with growls, airy presentations and phrasings, while never letting go of her intensity . Yes, sometimes the album is so intense that it can be taken only one side at a time, but the sensational feeling one gets rolling off into the morning sun with Etta James on the car stereo, is pure satisfaction. Another reviewer mentioned that it sounds like someone blowing on a hot mic and I suppose this is one way to describe it. While the backing orchestra has that classic late 50's early 60's limited range, timbre, and ambiance which is typical of the era, Etta's voice is really well captured on most tracks, nicely revealing her power, range, and dynamics.The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation). In 2008, the movie "Cadillac Records" told the story of her career through to the late 1970's, with her role being played by Beyoncé Knowles, who also recorded some of James' songs for the soundtrack.