Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:50
Size: 91,9 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Front
1. Another Blues Day (4:36)
2. Loser (4:37)
3. I've Been Buked (A Capella Vocal) (4:09)
4. The Lighthouse (6:21)
5. Come To Me (6:00)
6. Let The Telephone Ring (3:52)
7. I've Been There (6:12)
8. Chilly Waters (3:59)
From the suffering of one woman, the pain of a soul which is continually thwarted in its advancement by the evil forces of abusive love, racism, financial burden, and sexism, "Another Blues Day" was conceived. Afro-Americans were and are born in the blues. The blues is huddling beneath a worn, soiled blanket on a winter's night because you have no other. The blues is yet another job rejection: Two unspoken negative strikes - black and female. In Margie's case, the blues is struggling for twenty-five years to make and aesthetic and commercial contribution to the folk art of blues music.
The cathartic quality of this music - the reason it was created in the first place - and the ascending, undefeatable spirit which emerges is this album's triumph , its resolution. Here Margie recreates another blues day, just one more in the continuing day by day struggle of a human being who needs to survive in the face of barbed-wire hurdles. The blues you hear in this album is Margie's personal statement, but all races and ages can relate. After all, is life fair? On any continent?
That's the problem. The solution is to surmount and survive. This is he message in Margie's music. So much hurt, so much pain, so much suffering. It`s real with her, too. Yet, those who know Margie always experience her bouyant and compelling laughter. This isn't silliness. It's a survival technique. And she will make it. It's that same control of events and ascendency of spirit which permeates this recording. Complemented by eletric guitar, sax, keyboards, bass, drums, and (sometimes) flute, Margie wails her story. She's a shouter, unmistakably from the mold of Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, or Mahalia Jackson. Her empassioned vocals, fully mature at this stage in her career, embody the pain of Afro-Americans from slavery to the present. The instrumental accompaniment is as real as the voice. The sound is up-to-date, contemporary, yet uncluttered by recording studio gimmickery.
The blues ist he truth. It's the straight shot. So ist his album. In these eight songs, Margie goes throught her day: Waking to face turmoil, acknowledge the historic plight of Afro-Americans (listen to her mournful yet beautiful acappella version of “I've Been Buked“), experiencing a spiritual awakening (“Lighthouse“), attempting to share her joy and love with a special man, and receiving his cruel and icy response to this devotion.
It's a concept album: A story. The tears drop from her brown cheeks like heavy dew on an early morning's flower. Yet she shouts her pension to withstand and survive. Keep on keepjng on. That's what we all must do. The clouds will pass. When they do, Margie will be ready. /Original LP liner notes by Greg Drust
The cathartic quality of this music - the reason it was created in the first place - and the ascending, undefeatable spirit which emerges is this album's triumph , its resolution. Here Margie recreates another blues day, just one more in the continuing day by day struggle of a human being who needs to survive in the face of barbed-wire hurdles. The blues you hear in this album is Margie's personal statement, but all races and ages can relate. After all, is life fair? On any continent?
That's the problem. The solution is to surmount and survive. This is he message in Margie's music. So much hurt, so much pain, so much suffering. It`s real with her, too. Yet, those who know Margie always experience her bouyant and compelling laughter. This isn't silliness. It's a survival technique. And she will make it. It's that same control of events and ascendency of spirit which permeates this recording. Complemented by eletric guitar, sax, keyboards, bass, drums, and (sometimes) flute, Margie wails her story. She's a shouter, unmistakably from the mold of Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, or Mahalia Jackson. Her empassioned vocals, fully mature at this stage in her career, embody the pain of Afro-Americans from slavery to the present. The instrumental accompaniment is as real as the voice. The sound is up-to-date, contemporary, yet uncluttered by recording studio gimmickery.
The blues ist he truth. It's the straight shot. So ist his album. In these eight songs, Margie goes throught her day: Waking to face turmoil, acknowledge the historic plight of Afro-Americans (listen to her mournful yet beautiful acappella version of “I've Been Buked“), experiencing a spiritual awakening (“Lighthouse“), attempting to share her joy and love with a special man, and receiving his cruel and icy response to this devotion.
It's a concept album: A story. The tears drop from her brown cheeks like heavy dew on an early morning's flower. Yet she shouts her pension to withstand and survive. Keep on keepjng on. That's what we all must do. The clouds will pass. When they do, Margie will be ready. /Original LP liner notes by Greg Drust
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