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Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 2 July 1974
THE WELCOME revival in the musical fate of Etta James is highlighted by the release of a fine new album, produced by Gabriel Mekler and ...
Etta James (1978) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 12 July 1978
This is a transcription of Cliff's audio interview with Etta. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 13 July 1989
Etta James tells Barney Hoskyns about her struggles with addiction, meeting Billie Holiday, making Seven Year Itch and staying contemporary.
File format: mp3 File size: 40.4mb; Interview length: 44 minutes 5 seconds Sound quality: **
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, 12 July 1978
Etta takes us from 'Roll With Me Henry' to the present day: Johnny Otis; Modern Records and the Biharis; the move to Chess Records and hitting with 'All I Could Do Was Cry'; the end of Chess and working with Rick Hall, and the almost complete absence of royalties in her hit-making days.
File format: mp3; file size: 73.1mb, interview length: 1h 16' 08" sound quality: ****
Live Review by Cliff White, NME, 22 July 1978
THEY PROBABLY don't realise it but The Who once dedicated an album to Etta James. Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy it was called, and by ...
Retrospective by Carol Cooper, Village Voice, 23 January 2012
ETTA JAMES used to tell a story about meeting Billie Holiday in which Holiday told her — fatherless wild child to fatherless wild child — ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 August 1978
Having licked a serious drug problem, Etta is climbing to the top again and has been delighting audiences on the road with the Rolling Stones, ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 14 April 1984
MOST EVERY year now Ms Jamesetta Hawkins – Etta to you – will at the behest of Dingwalls Boss (Goodman, that is) fly over ...
Interview by Bill Bentley, LA Weekly, 17 April 1980
A YEAR AGO, Etta James stopped time as surely as if she had point-blanked a Timex with a .357. ...
Etta James' long search for stardom
Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 10 August 1978
IT IS A cruel irony that had she not been a junkie for thirteen of her forty years, Etta James would probably still be working ...
Etta James, Jerry Wexler: Etta James: The Queen Bee of R&B
Interview by Radio Pete, Rocky Mountain Musical Express, July 1978
IT IS almost impossible to write about Etta James and avoid clichés oft used in studies of jazz and soul artists. She's been exploited. She's ...
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 1 June 1978
ONCE, WHEN I WAS FOURTEEN, I bought a copy of "My Dearest Darling" by Etta James, a record I'd heard as an oldie on a ...
Review by Norman Jopling, Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 11 May 1968
ETTA JAMES Tell Mama — 'Tell Mama'; 'I'd Rather Go Blind'; 'The Love Of My Man'; 'I'm Gonna Take What He's Got'; 'The Same Rope'; ...
Etta James: Mama tells us all about it
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 26 July 1989
WHEN ETTA JAMES was a 17-year old glamour puss with drug-store-peroxide blonde hair and a lewd rock 'n' roll hit called 'Roll With Me Henry' ...
Obituary by David Hepworth, The Word, March 2012
JOHNNY OTIS was relaxing in his San Francisco hotel room one afternoon in 1954 when his manager called from the lobby and said he was ...
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 March 1968
Long Beach Hosts Pop Music Concert ...
Etta James: Soul Punk Etta: Superstardom the Hard Way on a Dollar a Day
Profile and Interview by Cliff White, NME, 19 August 1978
"THANKSGIVING DAY in November will be my silver anniversary: 25 years since I cut my first record and I haven't become a superstar yet. It ...
Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 24 July 2002
Flight to Amazonia (Slight Return) ...
Review by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 5 May 2009
I CALL THEM anachronauts: performers whose core appeal stems from their ability to transport listeners to another time and place. ...
Interview by Steve Roeser, Rock's Backpages audio, 24 February 1990
'50s R&B King Otis talks about the songs: 'Willie and the Hand Jive', 'Hound Dog'; the artists: Little Esther, Etta James; his son Shuggie and music education; and he rails against the ravaged black ghettos, and the lie of "integration".
File format: mp3; file size: 31.4mb, interview length: 34' 17" sound quality: ****
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