Saturday 1 March 2014

Grootna [1972]


With Some

A San Francisco, Bill Graham and Columbia Records encapsulated band, this information and the poster at the bottom of this post will illustrate the type of musical company they kept and emulated. It’s bluesrock in essence, with some country and some jazz and some funk, and led on all but one track by the vocals of Anna Rizzo who is clearly in the Joplin lineage, but though she tries to growl, for example on the Bessie Smith number Young Woman’s Blues, this isn’t her natural voice and it is more uptempo Rita Coolidge, though fine enough for that. Not the most memorable – there is so much stellar competition from the time – but I’m listening now thus the quick appreciative if not overwhelmed mention. 

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