Samantha Martin - The Reckless One - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar hail from modern-day Toronto, but it sounds like their heartsare in Memphis, Muscle Shoals and Motown - in the Sixties.Inch - Blues EnthusedInchSamantha Martin & Delta Sugar rock, and pacify, and generally astound in a way that seems tocontradict their mere five-year existence as a group so far.Inch - Canadian BeatsInchThese are Martin's songs, delivered with passion and power, drawn in part from forbears butmostly sounding fresh and contemporary just the same.Inch - Glide MagazineInchSamantha offers the same effusive passion and robust supercharged capability as the greatest Queens of the Blues have done before her during the 50s, 60s and 70s.Inch - Raw Ramp, 5/5The Reckless One represents another massive step forward for Samantha Martin as a songwriter, singer, arranger and band leader. Martin's lyrics, set to a panoply of intoxicating, ear worm melodies, tend to focus on the vicissitudes of love desire, disappointment and, when everything works out, emotional and sexual satisfaction. The album's twelve tracks cover a lot of ground, including 12/8 gospel infused soul ballads such as InchI've Got a FeelingInch and InchBetter to Have Never,Inch funk inflected tracks like InchLove is All Around,Inch stomping four-on-the-floor dance numbers epitomized by InchDon't Have To BeInch and the Wall of Sound influenced InchSacrifice.Inch Over the course of the album the discerning listener will detect a panoply of influences ranging from Mavis Staples, Sharon Jones and Otis Redding to Booker T. and the MG's and the Memphis Horns. Album Tracks 1. Love Is All Around 2. Don't Have to Be 3. Meet Me in the Morning 4. Loving You Is Easy 5. One Heartbreak 6. I've Got a Feeling 7. Sacrifice 8. So I Always Know 9. Pass Me By 10. Better to Have Never 11. All That I Am 12. Who Do You