Etta James
©Etta James/RCA VICTOR
Born: Jan 25, 1938 in Los Angeles, CA
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Genre: Blues
Styles: Uptown/Urban Blues, Christmas, Vocal Jazz, R&B, Soul, Traditional Gospel, Jazz, Oldies, Pop, Religious, Soul and R&B, Vocal, Holiday, Classic Female Blues, Modern Blues, Post-War Electric Blues
Biography: Few R&B singers have endured tragic travails on the monumental level that Etta James has and remain on earth to talk about it. The lady's no shrinking violet; her autobiography, Rage to Survive, describes her past (including numerous drug addictions) in sordid detail.

But her personal problems have seldom

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At Last!
Released: 1961
Label: Geffen
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After spending a few years in limbo after scoring her first R&B hits "Dance With Me, Henry" and "Good Rocking Daddy," Etta James returned to the spotlight in 1960 with her first Chess release, At Last. ...Read full review
Rocks The House
Released: 1964
Label: Geffen
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Simply one of the greatest live blues albums ever captured on tape. Cut in 1963 at the New Era Club in Nashville, the set finds Etta James in stellar shape as she forcefully delivers her own "Something's ...Read full review
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