Dana Gillespie - Live with the London Blues Band - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Veteran British blues singer and band explore the raunchy side.

2003 album for Europe's leading blues diva. Gillespie has recorded 45 albums in 40 years, this is her fourth for Ace. Featuring ten original compositions plus Frankie Miller's 'You're the Star'.

2021 . Dana Gillespie's affair with the blues shows not the slightest sign of flagging. Deep Pockets, the follow-up to 2019's Under My Bed, is a collection of 12 Gillespie originals, mostly written with long-standing lead guitarist Jake Zaitz. It is a reflective album, born of Covid lockdown. Deep Pockets has arrived earlier than scheduled. After the first UK lockdown prompted a rush of industry from Dana and an album's worth of songs, she and her band flew off to play the Lugano Blues Festival. With a house on Lake Maggiore at their disposal and no way of knowing when the London studios might reopen or close again, recording impromptu suddenly seemed like a good idea. Everything you hear was captured in that dazzling summer setting over just four days, in either one or two takes; that's why the music has such a distinctive heat, zest and spontaneity. Nothing's been overworked or unduly titivated, and Dana's voice, unerring in it's pitch and as expressive as ever, is just how it sounds in a live show.