Name: Loving You More in the Spirit of Etta James
Brand: SHANACHIE
SKU: 26738111
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Loving You More in the Spirit of Etta James

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Album: Loving You More in the Spirit of Etta James
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Soul Will Never Die	More Info...
2)	Something's Got a Hold on Me	More Info...
3)	It Hurts Me So Much	More Info...
4)	I'm Loving You More Every Day	More Info...
5)	I'd Rather Go Blind	More Info...
6)	I Want to Ta-Ta You Baby	More Info...
7)	Damn Your Eyes	More Info...
8)	Nobody Loves You Like Me	More Info...
9)	Old School Kind of Love	More Info...
10)	Sunday Kind of Love	More Info...
11)	At Last	More Info...

Album: Loving You More in the Spirit of Etta James
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Soul Will Never Die	More Info...
2)	Something's Got a Hold on Me	More Info...
3)	It Hurts Me So Much	More Info...
4)	I'm Loving You More Every Day	More Info...
5)	I'd Rather Go Blind	More Info...
6)	I Want to Ta-Ta You Baby	More Info...
7)	Damn Your Eyes	More Info...
8)	Nobody Loves You Like Me	More Info...
9)	Old School Kind of Love	More Info...
10)	Sunday Kind of Love	More Info...
11)	At Last	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel: Leela James (background vocals); Drew Ramsey (guitar, programming, background vocals); Dan Needham (drums); Shannon Sanders (programming, background vocals).
Recording information: Brownstone; Southside Sound; The VooDrew Room.
Editors: Michael Gregory ; Shannon Sanders; Drew Ramsey.
Photographer: Kevin Terrell.
After one album for Stax, Leela James returns to Shanachie, the label that facilitated the all-covers set Let's Do It Again. One could be forgiven for glancing at the back of Loving You More...In the Spirit of Etta James, recognizing that all but two songs were once recorded by Etta, and feeling let down that Leela, once more, is leaning on music from an era that predates her birth. After all, her previous album was her best yet and showed that she was coming into her own as a songwriter. However, Loving You More is both reverent and imaginative. It's not just the range of the source material, which roams from the earliest part of Etta's career (including 1961's "At Last" and "Sunday Kind of Love") to the later years (Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "I Want to Ta-Ta You Baby," covered by Etta in 1998). It's also the boldness that comes with the number of drastic rearrangements, the most excellent of which is the transformation of the blues-gospel ballad "I'm Loving You More Every Day" into late-'70s/early-'80s-style soul-disco. The two originals -- "Soul Will Never Die" and "Old School Kind of Love" -- are sturdy enough to be mistaken for covers. Leela honors her hero and, yes, makes nine old songs her own. That's not easy to do. ~ Andy Kellman