Janiva Magness - Original (2014)

2014 release, the 11th album from the award-winning vocalist. ORIGINAL finds the Los Angeles-based artist turning in her finest recorded vocal performances, co-writing a majority of tracks for the first time and testing herself by taking risks along with her production foil Dave Darling, whose credits include Glen Campbell, Brian Setzer, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx and Stray Cats, and whose instincts compelled Magness to tap her deepest creative powers and led the songs to sonically unpredictable places. ORIGINAL is Janiva's first release since 2012. During the last six years Magness has won four Blues Music Award's for Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year plus the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and Song of the Year and has become a fixture of the Americana music scene alongside such similar tough 'n' edgy roots-based artists as Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and St. Paul and the Broken Bones.