Joanna Connor - Fight (1992) CD-Rip
BAND/ARTIST: Joanna Connor
- Title: Fight
- Year Of Release: 1992
- Label: Blind Pig Records #BPCD 5002
- Genre: Blues Rock, Electric Blues
- Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
- Total Time: 00:43:54
- Total Size: 292 / 112 Mb (Full Scans)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Joanna Connor is a complete electric guitar package and vocalist extraordinaire. She covers the range of modern blues, slide guitar and blues rock with her own compositions very much influenced by funk, rock, jazz and world music as well as delta blues. Her sense of melody, phrasing and dynamics along with a very modern technique make her a very funky, soulful and compelling guitarist. As for vocal abilities, if Joanna wasn't a guitarist, she could easily be a lead singer in any band. Fight is the second release by Joanna Connor on the Blind Pig label.
Once she stepped off a greyhound bus in Chicago in October of 1984, it took Joanna but a few months to take the city's highly competitive blues circuit by storm. Chicago magazine hailed her as "the most exciting new talent on the blues scene." The Chicago Sun-Times called her "a powerhouse guitarist with a sense of rock dynamics - her playing has a fire that is free of self-indulgence." Joanna Connor and her searing slide guitar work have been raising eyebrows of blues aficionados and critics everywhere ever since. As the Boston Globe noted, "She brings a revved-up rock flavor to the blues with a desire to move the music forward, not just embalm it."
Jim Gaines, Grammy Award-winning producer of such artists as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana, and Steve Miller, was so impressed by Joanna's talents that he signed on to produce her second release, Fight, on the Blind Pig label. Billboard said, "Connor boasts a strong voice and is a truly dazzling guitarist, with a flaming slide attack." Playboy said, "The obvious comparison is Bonnie Raitt, since she's female and plays blues guitar. I say Connor's a soprano Johnny Winter. Most blues records miss the passion that made the original stuff compelling. This one reclaims it all."
Track List:
01. Walkin' Blues [04:19]
02. Living on the Road [04:11]
03. Fight [03:55]
04. Walk Away [03:50]
05. Heaven [03:32]
06. Lost [03:25]
07. Texas [05:19]
08. Your Love was Never Mine [03:59]
09. I got Love [04:05]
10. Child of Two Worlds [03:31]
11. No Good for Me [03:21]
Once she stepped off a greyhound bus in Chicago in October of 1984, it took Joanna but a few months to take the city's highly competitive blues circuit by storm. Chicago magazine hailed her as "the most exciting new talent on the blues scene." The Chicago Sun-Times called her "a powerhouse guitarist with a sense of rock dynamics - her playing has a fire that is free of self-indulgence." Joanna Connor and her searing slide guitar work have been raising eyebrows of blues aficionados and critics everywhere ever since. As the Boston Globe noted, "She brings a revved-up rock flavor to the blues with a desire to move the music forward, not just embalm it."
Jim Gaines, Grammy Award-winning producer of such artists as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana, and Steve Miller, was so impressed by Joanna's talents that he signed on to produce her second release, Fight, on the Blind Pig label. Billboard said, "Connor boasts a strong voice and is a truly dazzling guitarist, with a flaming slide attack." Playboy said, "The obvious comparison is Bonnie Raitt, since she's female and plays blues guitar. I say Connor's a soprano Johnny Winter. Most blues records miss the passion that made the original stuff compelling. This one reclaims it all."
To date, Joanna Connor's studio work has not lived up the live-wire energy of her personal performances. Fight takes a major step toward setting this right. This stuff wails, especially Robert Johnson's "Walking Blues" which Connor reinvents courtesy of some stinging slidework. While Connor's lack of dependence on cover material rates bonus points, not all her songs are memorable – even if the guitar playing is.
~ Roch Parisien, All Music
~ Roch Parisien, All Music
Track List:
01. Walkin' Blues [04:19]
02. Living on the Road [04:11]
03. Fight [03:55]
04. Walk Away [03:50]
05. Heaven [03:32]
06. Lost [03:25]
07. Texas [05:19]
08. Your Love was Never Mine [03:59]
09. I got Love [04:05]
10. Child of Two Worlds [03:31]
11. No Good for Me [03:21]
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