Candye Kane - Sister Vagabond (2011)

Artist...............: Candye Kane
Album................: Sister Vagabond
Genre................: Blues Rock
Source...............: Cd
Year.................: 2011
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy
Codec................: FLAC
Information..........: TntVillage
Covers...............: Front
Total Size...........: 284 Mb


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Los Angeles native Candye Kane is the 21st century version of Bessie Smith, singing a tough, smart,

sassy, and showbiz-savvy blend of blues and soul that takes no prisoners of any persuasion. Kane has

been a lot of things in her life, from a mother and serious student to a pinup girl and actress (both

on-stage and in risqué [to say the least] movies), and she even did a stint as a serious, full-tilt

punk rocker. She’d be just another fringe player in L.A. except for one thing -- she can sing like

nobody’s business and she has a sexy, intelligent, and passionate musical vision to match her voice.

On Sister Vagabond, her tenth album, Kane has really put it all together for her finest studio outing

yet, mixing blues, torch soul, and funky swing numbers together into a smart and brassy whole, helped

immeasurably by the brilliant guitar playing of longtime cohort Laura Chavez. The album, which opens

with a fiery version of Johnny "Guitar" Watson's “I Love to Love You,” never lags or lulls, and Kane

sings her heart out on song after song, sometimes with a wink, sometimes with a sexy bravado, and

sometimes with an indignant sense of injustice. She turns Brenda Lee's “Sweet Nothin’s” into a

brilliant, leering piece of Excello Records swamp pop that rides on Chavez's reverb-drenched guitar

lines, and together, they completely reinvent the song. Kane transforms Glenn Frey and Jack

Tempchin's “Everybody’s Gonna Love Somebody Tonight” into a blues stomper that replaces sad irony

with passionate certainty, and on one of the nine originals that she wrote or co-wrote for the album,

“You Can’t Take It Back from Here,” Kane manages to link Louis Armstrong, Storyville, dolphins, and

the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill into a coherent, anguished rant that shows her considerable

songwriting abilities. Kane may have a personal bio that suggests she’s a campy airhead, but nothing

could be further from the truth. She’s an empowered, intelligent woman with a clear idea of what

she’s doing, what era she’s in, and what her politics are, and best of all, she knows how to sing the

blues in all of its flavors, and she sings like she’s been there and done that and isn’t afraid of

what the end of the night brings. Candye Kane is the real deal, stripper name or not, and this is her

best album to date.


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Tracklist
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01. I Love To Love You
02. Love Insurance
03. Sweet Nothin's
04. Walkin', Talkin' Haunted House
05. You Never Cross My Mind
06. Everybody's Gonna Love Somebody Tonight
07. You Can't Take It Back From Here
08. Side Dish
09. You Can't Hurt Me Anymore
10. Hard Knock Gal
11. Have A Nice Day
12. Down With The Blues
13. I Deserve Love