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PHOTOS: Etta James Goes From 'At Last' Singer To Legendary American Artist

- Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

It's impossible to think of Etta James without wanting to hum the long, soulful notes of her signature song "At Last." The late singer became an American icon with hits like 1968's "I'd Rather Go Blind" and "A Sunday Kind Of Love" in 1961, but along the way, she maintained her star status by sporting big, winged-out eyeliner and even bigger hair.

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ETTA JAMES: AN APPRECIATION

- Source: Soul Sides

Etta James was a singer who I always enjoyed on the periphery…in other words, I never made a concerted effort to really get that deep into her catalog but I understand, on a very basic level, that this was a Very Important Artist and not just because she sang one of the very best ballads ever sung in the history of people singing ballads.

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R.I.P. Etta James

- Source: Tonegents

The music posted on this blog is for evaluation purposes only and will be removed after a short time... so if you like it... support the artists, dammit!

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Album: Etta James, The Dreamer (Decca)

- Source: The Independent - Music

And as a swansong, it's as fine as might be expected given the circumstances: there's an aptly valedictory tone to the brooding, brassy covers of Ray Charles's "In the Evening" and Little Milton's "Let Me Down Easy", although the hookline to Johnny Guitar Watson's "Too Tired" – "I'm too tired for anything" – is belied by the loping swing of the groove.

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