Mary Shaver has been singing all her life. She is first and foremost a blues artist influenced by the likes of Slim Harpo and Big Mama Thornton. She labels her own style as “Texas, Louisiana and Chicago Blues meets Memphis Soul,” and local critics and musicians have likened her powerful voice to all her idols. But her path as an artist has not been a particularly straight or smooth one. Her twenties saw Mary’s music confined mostly to acoustic jam sessions with friends. (Remember, in addition to six-string guitar, this woman plays a mean ukulele.) Then, in 1989, Mary joined the rock/blues cover band One Thin Dime. They had a few original tunes and opened for some national acts. But as is often the case in the competitive music business, the band members each had day jobs and other interests. They never got around to recording and Mary grew restless. Priority for her music had to be juggled with the bill-paying necessities and challenges of everyday life. Mary returned to school and now works full-time as a paralegal for a non-profit organization. Yet she has long had the inner awareness that recording was in her future. Her catalyst came in the form of personal maturation and family crisis as Mary’s fortieth birthday loomed and her mother was in a near fatal auto accident. In early 1998, Mary found herself making the difficult decision to leave One Thin Dime to create music on her own terms.
She had some savings. She had her talent and her voice. It was time to finally say “yes!” to her driving desire. Over the next 16 months of obtaining rights, gathering musicians and finalizing a varied play list of classic and less covered blues and R&B tunes, Mary, with the help of Nighthawks drummer Pete Ragusa as producer, assembled and cut her first disc, No Time Like Now. It was a long time coming, a labor of patience and love.
She had some savings. She had her talent and her voice. It was time to finally say “yes!” to her driving desire. Over the next 16 months of obtaining rights, gathering musicians and finalizing a varied play list of classic and less covered blues and R&B tunes, Mary, with the help of Nighthawks drummer Pete Ragusa as producer, assembled and cut her first disc, No Time Like Now. It was a long time coming, a labor of patience and love.
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:12
Size: 87.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front
[3:06] 1. Just As I Thought
[3:49] 2. Little By Little
[5:29] 3. Lonely Avenue
[2:58] 4. Rip It Up
[3:03] 5. Security
[4:55] 6. Your Good Thing (Is About To Come To An End)
[2:52] 7. I Hear You Knockin'
[4:56] 8. Feel Like Breakin' Up Somebody's Home
[3:37] 9. Everything But My Baby
[3:22] 10. Tee Ni Nee Ni Nu
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Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:44
Size: 84.1 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1999
Art: Front
[3:47] 1. You Took Away My Blues
[3:49] 2. Steamy Windows
[2:25] 3. Just Your Fool
[3:35] 4. Who's Lovin' You
[4:13] 5. Betrayed By A Kiss
[4:16] 6. Still I Fall
[2:58] 7. Hound Dog
[3:48] 8. Caught In Between
[4:56] 9. Out Of The Rain
[2:53] 10. No Time Like Now
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