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Marcia Ball
The Honky Tonk Gift Shop is proud to feature Marcia Ball. All of Marcia Ball's books, CDs and videos we have reviewed are listed on this page for your
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Blue House
Marcia Ball
Price $ 14.99
The beat and lyrics of 'I keep my fingernails long so they click when I play
the piano' captivated me so much , I rushed to a phone and called the local radio station to find out who
the artist was. That day I purchased this album and have been a fan since. Her unique cajun style and
excellant intrumental accompaniment will have you tapping your foot to her music. Enjoy!
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Dreams Come True
Marcia Ball
Price $ 11.97
Austin's leading ladies of contemporary blues team up for the best album ever on club-owner Clifford
Antone's label. The songs mix Ike Turner gems with three Ball compositions, two from bassist Sarah
Brown, and others by Harold Battiste and Lavelle White. Which means the accent is on old-fashioned
hooks and harmonies, perfectly executed right from the opening Ike and Tina hit "A Fool in Love." All
three women sing lead on that number, but otherwise they trade the spotlight. Ball's singing is tart 'n'
sweet, with a hint of Texas dust. Her barrelhouse piano is the CD's most distinctive instrumental voice.
And her "Snake Dance" is the biggest surprise, conjuring a New Orleans voodoo vibe. Strehli belts in
clear, powerful tones--imagine Ma Rainey as a rocker. Barton sings sassy, with a slight sultry slur--also
with the know-how to make "Good Rockin' Daddy" '50s perfect. Barton's career stalled after this 1990
session, while Ball and Strehli have continued to make excellent recordings. --Ted Drozdow
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Gatorhythms
Marcia Ball
Price $ 13.99
A mainstay of the festival circuit and blues clubs, Marcia Ball is a captivating performer and a
one-woman ambassador for the south Louisiana sound she loves. This, her third Rounder album, dates
from 1989. It's a mostly self-composed program that doesn't quite capture the joy of her live shows, but
comes close at times. Of all the new songs, "The Power of Love" is best. It's a beautifully poised
performance that grows slowly and inexorably from a two-minute vocal-piano intro. Some of the songs
are built around the mournful swamp-pop chord changes; others around Cajun two-steps. The album
closes with country star LeRoy Parnell's "Red Hot," which has since become one of her show-closers.
--Colin Escott
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Hot Tamale Baby
Marcia Ball
Price $ 13.99
This relentlessly upbeat album, Marcia Ball's second for Rounder, marks her 1985 graduation from the
Louisiana-Texas "crawfish circuit" to the national scene. But it still packs the freewheeling feel of her
four-sets-a-night years. These 10 tunes dash through soul ("I'm Gonna Forget About You"), R&B
("Don't You Know I Love You"), blues ("Another Man's Woman"), rock & roll (Ball's own "That's Enough
of That Stuff"), and zydeco (the Clifton Chenier-penned title track) with such gleeful abandon they seem
to pass in a flash. All the while, Ball--who's joined by her three-piece band and a visiting horn
section--makes like a female Jerry Lee Lewis, pounding her piano with bare- knuckled virtuosity as she
shouts and swoops through her good-time lyrics.
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Let Me Play With Your Poodle
Marcia Ball
Price $ 14.99
Long, tall Marcia Ball kicks off her new album with the title track, "Let Me Play with Your Poodle," a
rollicking, double-entendre blues number originated by Tampa Red. In Ball's version, she reinforces the
salacious lyrics with a punchy horn section, her own second-line New Orleans piano solo and her own
giddy vocal. And Ball doesn't need to dip into blues history for a bawdy song; she proves she can write
her own on "The Right Tool for the Job." The rest of the album isn't quite so blunt, but whether she's
admitting she "Can't Trust My Heart" or declaring there's "Something I Can't Do," Ball locks her voice
and piano parts so firmly into the syncopated Gulf Coast rhythms that there always seems to be a party
in full swing on this recording.
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Sing It!
Marcia Ball
Price $ 14.99
Why settle for one great female vocalist when you can get three, especially when they're stylish soul
diva Irma Thomas, Tracy "Mother Earth" Nelson, and swamp rocker (and roller) Marcia Ball. The
talented trio take the Sing It! title seriously, belting all hues of blues with satisfying sass and sincerity.
Backed by a fine and funky band of Memphis-soul stalwarts and New Orleans session stars, the ladies
shine both individually and as a team. Thomas, the longtime "Soul Queen of New Orleans," struts her
stuff on the Bobby "Blue" Bland classic "Yield Not to Temptation," while Ball puts some patented bayou
boogie, powered by her slinky piano lines, into her spotlight songs. Nelson repeatedly stops the show
with her enormous, wraparound voice, transforming tunes like "In Tears" from simple country-flavored
ballads into cathartic emotional experiences. But it's the combined voices that makes the session so
special, and the title track, a soulfully scintillating second-line anthem, is the most enjoyable example of
the vocal virtuosity of these women.
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Soulful Dress
Marcia Ball
Price $ 14.99
Lively and bright Marcia's music always brings a smile to my face and spring to my step.I dare you to
have a bad day while listening to Soulful Dress!Made your move too soon and Eugene make me giggle
every time I hear them.Got folks over,rev up any gathering with this cd I promise people will dance ,laugh
and have a good time to this lighthearted music.
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