Ruthie Foster: Let It Burn
Holly Gleason, Paste, 2 February 2012
WHEN YOU CALL Grammy-winning producer John Chelew, the man behind John Hiatt's career-resurrecting Bring The Family, you've got to want to be real. Thankfully, Ruthie Foster — also a Grammy nominee for the blues — knows no other way. Their collaboration brings a soul-expanding take on Foster's plain dirt voice, which mixes her Texas folk/blues with gospel, Muscle Shoals-feeling soul, Memphis grooves and hints of New Orleans funk, California singer/songwriter aesthetics and the Mississippi's humid rootsiness.
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