Music CD - Ruthie Foster: The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster

	Music CD: The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster Artist: Ruthie Foster List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $10.18 Your Save: $ 4.80 ( 32% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Blue Corn Music
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Tracks: 1. 'Cuz I'm Here 2. Heal Yourself 3. Fruits Of My Labor 4. People Grinnin' In Your Face 5. Up Above My Head (I Hear Music In The Air) 6. Harder Than The Fall 7. Beaver Creek Blues 8. Mama Said 9. Phenomenal Woman 10. A Friend Like You 11. I Don't Know What To Do With My Heart
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0677967060226 Label: Blue Corn Music Manufacturer: Blue Corn Music Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Corn Music Release Date: 2007-02-06 Studio: Blue Corn Music
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Blues + Soul = Phenomenal Comment: I stopped listening to any kind of radio a few years ago, so my exposure to new artists (to me) is via the internet. I was on YouTube watching clips of Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Up Above My Head) and saw a clip of Ruthie Foster doing a cover, needless to say I was intrigued and sought out her music and bought this release. What a treat. Her blues/soul sensibilities are refreshing. I'll be be exploring the rest of her catalog,which I'm sure I'll enjoy. Customer Rating: Summary: Sunday best Comment: a wonderful collection of songs. The arrangements and recordings are crisp beautiful! I look forward to buying another Ruthie Foster CD and hopefully catching her in concert! Customer Rating: Summary: Better than I'd Hoped Comment: I ordered this CD based on a review I read in The Epoch Times and I was delighted to find it was even better than I had hoped. Ruthie's depth of feeling, her wise understanding of the world she lives in, and her voice itself are so moving that I had to take this CD everywhere with me and let all my friends hear it. Customer Rating: Summary: The Title Doesn't Lie Comment: Five long years after Foster arrived with "Runaway Soul," a fine blues/soul disc that netted an appearance on Austin City Limits, she returns with an homage to Sixties soul and blues. On the first two offerings, ""Cuz I'm Here" and "Heal Yourself" she courts comparisons to Aretha at her best, a soulful Gospel shouter. Then she slows it down with a stunning cover of Lucinda Williams' "Fruits of My Labor," and a testifying, nearly acapella cover of Son House's "People Grinnin' In Your Face." Foster's voice is powerful and natural, unprocessed, a rarity. While not all the cuts match the power of the opening quad, the in a real way rarely heard. While the production isn't inspired, Foster and producer Malcolm Wellbourne were smart enough to have her mostly ditch her acoustic guitar for the warmth of a Wurlitzer piano. While the rest of the album doesn't always match the heights of the opening quad, it's an early favorite for a best of 2007. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent Soulful Music Comment: Ruthie Foster truly is phenomenal. I always wonder where people like her have been hiding. As on any CD there are songs I like better than others but overall this is a stellar CD. This woman can sing and you can feel the soul in her music. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Ruthie Foster's the newest voice in old-school soul. Her fifth album is a remarkable flashback to the genre's '60s and '70s heyday, framing her warm butter-and-cayenne-pepper singing with organ, electric piano, shimmering guitar textures, and strong backbeats. That sound, along with her strength as a song interpreter--rippling with beauty on Lucinda Williams's "Fruits of My Labor," stunningly emotional on Son House's cautionary Delta spiritual "People Grinnin' in Your Face"--and her fine-tuned social politics, makes Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, and Nina Simone reasonable artistic references. For the 42-year-old Texan, this historic approach is new. Until now she's been an obscure acoustic-guitar-wielding singer-songwriter. And, indeed, the evocative lyricism of her own tunes "Harder Than the Fall," "Heal Yourself," and "Beaver Creek Blues" is clearly the work of an experienced craftsperson. But the performances on this elegant album, made under the tutelage of imaginative and empathetic Austin-based producer Malcolm Welbourne, live up to its boastful title, and seem destined to bring Foster the larger audience she deserves. --Ted Drozdowski