Sandra Hall & Gnola Blues Band - Red Bone Woman

Album: Red Bone Woman
Size: 111,3 MB
Time: 48:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Don't You Ever (3:56)
2. Just Hold Me Like That (4:00)
3. Tell Me (6:51)
4. Red Bone Woman (4:24)
5. Got The Blues All Over (3:46)
6. The Letter (6:44)
7. Go On (4:03)
8. A Change Gonna Come (4:29)
9. The Blues Bar (3:33)
10. You Ain't Jump Into My Sack (3:36)
11. Good Time Tonight (2:32)

Her powerful voice and her exceptional, sometimes raunchy stage presence, her professionalism and her determination have earned Sandra Hall the nickname of “the Empress of the blues". A native of Atlanta, Sandra Hall grew up nearby in a small town where her grandfather was a pastor. Along with her sister Barbara, she began singing gospel at the age of four, with their grandmother at the piano while their mother was on tour, also singing gospel. Eight years later, the two sisters set up the Soul Sisters and began to sing in clubs. From 1965, Sandra Hall was a singer and dancer in the Exotics, a female group that occasionally opened for artists whose tour passed through Atlanta. This allowed her to rub shoulders with big names in soul and blues, such as B.B. King, Otis Redding, Bo Diddley and Etta James.

After about ten years, her career takes on another dimension and it is now under her name that she sings, tours and records. However, she could not always lead a full-time musical career and was sometimes required to work as a nurse, dancer or stripper. She also makes the choice to take the time to raise her daughter. Despite these intermittences, her career is rich in numerous American but also European tours (Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands, France). She has shared the stage with legendary artists such as James Brown, B.B. King, Johnny Taylor, Otis Redding, Bo Diddley, The Temptations, The O'Jays, Etta James, Mavis Staples and Jimi Hendrix.

Sandra Hall recorded the excellent “Showin' Off” (1995) and “One Drop Will Do You” (1997) for Ichiban Records, a major label based in Atlanta. “American Roots: Blues” (Ichiban, 2002) compiles tracks from these albums while “Miss Red Riding Hood” is self-produced from 2001. In the summer 2003, Sandra Hall met with members of Gnola Blues Band starting an intense collaboration that continues today with a series of concerts to major festivals in Italy and Europe. It also resulted in the the release of the album "Red Bone Woman" (2007), eleven tracks of which nine are signed by Roger Mugnaini and Maurizio "Gnola" Glielmo.

Personnel: Sandra Hall (vocals); Maurizio "Gnola" Glielmo (guitar, background vocals); Roger Mugnaini (piano, Hammond organ, background vocals); Tix Cimaschi (bass); Max Bertagna (drums); Max Negri (saxophone); Lilian Stoimenov (trumpet); Sugar Blue (harmonica tracks 1 & 9).

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Sandra Hall - Miss Red Riding Hood

Album: Miss Red Riding Hood
Size: 103,2 MB
Time: 44:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues
Art: Front, inside, tray, cd

1. Jump Into My Fire (4:59)
2. I Demand A Lotta Love (3:15)
3. Talk Is Cheap (2:29)
4. I'm Not A Size Six (4:48)
5. Travelin The Blues (7:31)
6. I Done Got Used To Doing Without (2:53)
7. Perfect Lie (5:59)
8. Custom-Tailored Man (3:35)
9. Miss Red Riding Hood (5:50)
10. New Way With The Blues (3:24)

b. c. 1948, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Hall sang from very early childhood, singing not only in church but also performing for admiring customers at her grandmother’s fish fry. From the age of 12 she sang in a duo, the Soul Sisters, with her sister Barbara Hall. From the mid-60s she sang and danced with the Exotic, a female group that sometimes opened for touring blues and soul artists visiting Atlanta, in particular at the Royal Peacock, one of the city’s leading nightclubs.

Later, Hall worked as a nurse in Atlanta, singing part time, and she also raised her daughter. Reportedly, Hall also performed as a go-go dancer and stripper and if true, this element of her past might account for the emergence in her live performances of vibrant and sensual undercurrents. Unafraid to offer highly charged songs that are replete with innuendo, if not outright sexuality, Hall is perhaps best caught live although her recordings retain some of that same earthy drive.

Hall began recording in the mid-70s and successfully blended earthy blues with soaring soul. Any blues singer who takes as her billing the accolade, ‘Empress of the Blues’, has a lot to live up to and if Hall is no Bessie Smith then she is certainly worthy of a wider audience than has so far been hers although she has visited Europe where she attracted attention from fans and critics alike in Switzerland, where she sang at the Montreux Festival, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.

Songs in her repertoire include ‘Pump Up Your Love’, ‘Ball And Chain’, ‘I Got Everything I Need’, ‘One Drop Will Do You’, ‘Find You A Job’, ‘Use What You Got’ and ‘Big Long Slidin’ Thing’. In 2005 she appeared at the W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival. Hall is a friend and mentor to newcomers such as Shemekia Copeland. In addition to performing, Hall also visits schools in the south, talking about the culture of the blues and teaching blues singing. /Biography by AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Sandra Hall - Showin' Off

Album: Showin' Off
Size: 100,2 MB
Time: 43:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Blues, soul-blues
Art: Full

1. Right In The Middle (4:24)
2. Why Does It Feel So Right (4:08)
3. I Need To Love You (5:27)
4. I Got The Will (3:07)
5. I Miss You So (3:33)
6. Back In The Street Again (3:59)
7. Ball & Chain (4:55)
8. Stop Trying To Run My Life (4:50)
9. I Wanna See What You Say (4:24)
10. Wounded Woman (3:18)
11. Thank You Jesus (1:01)

b. c. 1948, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Hall sang from very early childhood, singing not only in church but also performing for admiring customers at her grandmother’s fish fry. From the age of 12 she sang in a duo, the Soul Sisters, with her sister Barbara Hall. From the mid-60s she sang and danced with the Exotic, a female group that sometimes opened for touring blues and soul artists visiting Atlanta, in particular at the Royal Peacock, one of the city’s leading nightclubs.

Later, Hall worked as a nurse in Atlanta, singing part time, and she also raised her daughter. Reportedly, Hall also performed as a go-go dancer and stripper and if true, this element of her past might account for the emergence in her live performances of vibrant and sensual undercurrents. Unafraid to offer highly charged songs that are replete with innuendo, if not outright sexuality, Hall is perhaps best caught live although her recordings retain some of that same earthy drive.

Hall began recording in the mid-70s and successfully blended earthy blues with soaring soul. Any blues singer who takes as her billing the accolade, ‘Empress of the Blues’, has a lot to live up to and if Hall is no Bessie Smith then she is certainly worthy of a wider audience than has so far been hers although she has visited Europe where she attracted attention from fans and critics alike in Switzerland, where she sang at the Montreux Festival, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.

Songs in her repertoire include ‘Pump Up Your Love’, ‘Ball And Chain’, ‘I Got Everything I Need’, ‘One Drop Will Do You’, ‘Find You A Job’, ‘Use What You Got’ and ‘Big Long Slidin’ Thing’. In 2005 she appeared at the W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival. Hall is a friend and mentor to newcomers such as Shemekia Copeland. In addition to performing, Hall also visits schools in the south, talking about the culture of the blues and teaching blues singing. /Biography by AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Sandra Hall - One Drop Will Do You

Size: 277 MB
Time: 43:59
File: Flac
Released: 1997
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Pump Up Your Love (4:00)
2. Ask Me No Questions (3:43)
3. Find You A Job (3:42)
4. Boogie Woogie Fever (3:29)
5. One Drop Will Do You (2:45)
6. Big Long Slidin' Thing (2:42)
7. I'm Hurtin' (3:34)
8. Blow Top Blues (3:28)
9. Party At My House (2:58)
10. Ease The Pain (4:50)
11. My Henhouse (3:46)
12. Use What You Got (4:57)

Sandra L. Hall (born September 5, 1951) is an African-American blues and soul blues singer and songwriter. She has been billed as Atlanta's "Empress of the Blues" Hall is an Honorary Member of the Atlanta Blues Society. To date she has released five albums, including three on Ichiban Records.

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Sandra Hall - American Roots: Blues

Size: 103.6 MB
Time: 43:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. I Need To Love You (5:24)
02. I Got The Will (3:04)
03. I Miss You So (3:32)
04. Stop Trying To Run My Life (4:45)
05. I Wanna See What You Say (4:23)
06. Pump Up Your Love (3:58)
07. Boogie Woogie Fever (3:26)
08. One Drop Will Do You (2:42)
09. Party At My House (2:56)
10. My Henhouse (3:44)
11. Use What You Got (4:57)
12. Thank You Jesus (0:54)

b. c. 1948, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Hall sang from very early childhood, singing not only in church but also performing for admiring customers at her grandmother’s fish fry. From the age of 12 she sang in a duo, the Soul Sisters, with her sister Barbara Hall. From the mid-60s she sang and danced with the Exotic, a female group that sometimes opened for touring blues and soul artists visiting Atlanta, in particular at the Royal Peacock, one of the city’s leading nightclubs. Later, Hall worked as a nurse in Atlanta, singing part time, and she also raised her daughter. Reportedly, Hall also performed as a go-go dancer and stripper and if true, this element of her past might account for the emergence in her live performances of vibrant and sensual undercurrents. Unafraid to offer highly charged songs that are replete with innuendo, if not outright sexuality, Hall is perhaps best caught live although her recordings retain some of that same earthy drive.

Hall began recording in the mid-70s and successfully blended earthy blues with soaring soul. Any blues singer who takes as her billing the accolade, ‘Empress of the Blues’, has a lot to live up to and if Hall is no Bessie Smith then she is certainly worthy of a wider audience than has so far been hers although she has visited Europe where she attracted attention from fans and critics alike in Switzerland, where she sang at the Montreux Festival, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. Songs in her repertoire include ‘Pump Up Your Love’, ‘Ball And Chain’, ‘I Got Everything I Need’, ‘One Drop Will Do You’, ‘Find You A Job’, ‘Use What You Got’ and ‘Big Long Slidin’ Thing’. In 2005 she appeared at the W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival. Hall is a friend and mentor to newcomers such as Shemekia Copeland. In addition to performing, Hall also visits schools in the south, talking about the culture of the blues and teaching blues singing. ~AMG

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