Etta James - At Last!
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Artist: Etta JamesBrand: JAMES,ETTA
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-07-27
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Anything To Say You're Mine
- My Dearest Darling
- Trust In Me
- A Sunday Kind Of Love
- Tough Mary
- I Just Want To Make Love To You
- At Last
- All I Could Do Is Cry
- Stormy Weather
- Girl Of My Dreams (Rendered As 'Boy Of My Dreams)
- My Heart Cries
- Spoonful
- It's A Crying Shame
- If I Can't Have You
Free Music Notes for At Last!
Free Music Review: Etta James With A Vitamin For The Soul!!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Now......you have to remember this is a debut album we're talking about.And even at Chess,the name of the game at the start of the 60's was 45 RPM singles. Well I am sure what's here were single sessions but when put together.........the effect is just hard to describe. If you have ANY doubt that Etta James was the original Queen Of Soul this is completely affirming. She and Aretha are just going to have to share that title;they're both essential. Even if you haven't seen the film Cadillac Records and don't know anything,even if semi fictionalized about what was going on inside Etta's heart as she recorded this,what you hear on this album will amaze you.The remastering album,especially for the original music's vintage makes it sound showroom new;Etta's voice is heard in all it's glory. What do I hear when I hear Etta's voice?She's smokey,firey and can plain just attack the mic with a raspy growl.It's also clear and some of most wonderfully phrased singing I can think of.So tell you something you don't know right?I don't know if that's possible so I'll work with my own impressions right now. EVERY song on this album is full of soul-EVERYTHING!The Riley Hampton Orchestra just melts like carmel,setting a nearly impossible standard for all soul music orchestration to come.Now we've all heard the title song;it's one of those undisputed R&B classics that's etched into the subconscious of pretty much everyone. On music such as "Anything To Say You're Mine","Trust In Me" and works of utter beauty such as "A Sunday Kind Of Love" and "All I Could Do Is Cry",a tune on which Etta falls into her lowest possible vocal register you hear the whole emotional heart of her talent;the ecstacy and agony,the joy and the pain,the blues and the gospel-she gives you everything,even if there's that unmistakable 50's style R&B "swinging" style to the arrangment. Etta can also throw down some serious blues too;the assertive sexuality of her spin on Willie Dixon's "I Just Want To Make Love To You" would be more then proof enough but then you get four bonus tracks;all wonderful uptempo Chess rhythm & BLUES (emphasis on that) with Harvey Fuqua;"Spoonful","It's A Crying Shame","If I Can't Have You" and the slow burning "My Heart Cries". On the album your going to get like minded tunes such as "Tough Mary" and "Boy Of My Dreams".I am not exactly sure how much of the emotion in these songs actually came from Etta's real life but either way she always sings a song they way she feels it and that is exactly what you'll get on everyone of these songs.Whatever era of music you happen to be into,or even if you don't have anymore Etta James (and you should probably collect as much of her stuff as you can) this is something you going to want as part of your R&B collection!
At Last! Poster
Etta James, At Last!This is Etta James's first full-length album, recorded for Chess Records' Argo subsidiary in 1960. It taps all aspects of her then-blossoming talent. There's the crooning rock ballad "My Dearest Darling" and the elegantly symphonic "Sunday Kind of Love." Her classic, brokenhearted "All I Could Do Was Cry" follows the sweet title track and the bawdy blues stomper "I Just Want to Make Love to You." And there's a version of Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather," which Lena Horne made famous. James's fine way with such a wide embrace of material wouldn't again be this well displayed on a single album until she was united with producer Jerry Wexler for 1977's Deep in the Night. --Ted Drozdowski
The R&B queen's classic collection is augmented this time around by a long-overdue digital remastering, plus a few bonus tracks, presumably for those who found the original album a little on the brief side. In addition to James's well-known hits, including "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Stormy Weather," there are four additional songs: "My Heart Cries," "Spoonful," "It's a Crying Shame," and "If I Can't Have You." Although one might cynically suggest that these were added to give Etta fans something to purchase besides The Essential Etta James, it's definitely true that these tracks are worth hearing. --Genevieve Williams
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