Evil Woman Blues

Performer: Various Artists
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Released in February 2008, just in time for Valentine's Day, EVIL WOMAN BLUES is a compilation of classic blues tracks about, well, evil women. From Skip James's ghostly, chilling "Devil Got My Woman" to Big Bill Broonzy's "Evil Woman Blues" of the title, this 15-track compilation delivers the low-down on mean mistreating females and the havoc they wreak. Buster Brown, Little Johnny Taylor, and Mississippi Fred McDowell also weigh in with tales of woe, and the whole set should prove a bittersweet musical accompaniment to those nursing festering heart wounds on V-Day. Dedicated to "the women we love to hate," this blues collection provides 15 songs that hound, bedraggle, and question the fairer sex from a worked-up male perspective. Among the most poignant and dogged statements are all-time favorites such as "I Can't Quit You Baby" by Otis Rush, "Devil Got My Woman" from Elmore James, "Evil Woman Blues" courtesy of Big Bill Broonzy, and "Baby Please Don't Go" by Mississippi Fred McDowell. In addition, you get two female retorts from Memphis Minnie and Barbara Carr. Perhaps sometimes you love them and that's why you hate them, as the old lyric attests, but blues music is built to chase those illin' feelings, and this CD would provide a good antidote. ~ Michael G. Nastos

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