ANA! Live In Amsterdam by Ana Popović (CD, 2005, Ruf Records) *NEW* *FREE Ship*

Description: ANA! Live In Amsterdam by Ana Popović [CD] Track Listing: 1 Intro2 Don't Bear Down On Me3 Sittin' On Top Of The World4 Love Me Again5 Comfort To The Soul6 Navajo Moon7 Night By Night8 Bigtown Playboy9 Won't Let You Down10 Jaco11 Long Way Home12 My Man13 Long Lost LoveRecorded live at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, this performance represented a homecoming for the 29 year-old native of the Netherlands. Ana Popovich has demonstrated with her music that she is an excellent and expressive guitarist, as well as an impressive vocalist. ANA! LIVE IN AMSTERDAM showcases her ability to cross the borders of different musical styles and blend rock, blues, jazz and soul to create her own distinct style. --- Many blues-oriented and blues-friendly artists will go their entire careers without ever providing a live album, which is regrettable because live performances are such an important part of the blues experience. Ana Popovic, thankfully, isn't one of them. This 67-minute CD is the Yugoslavian singer/guitarist's third album for Ruf Records, and it is also her first live album. Recorded at an Amsterdam, Holland, show on January 30, 2005 (when Popovic was 28), the disc paints a consistently exciting picture of her talents as a live performer. Popovic is as captivating on the aggressive, confident strut of "My Man" and Howlin' Wolf's "Sittin' on Top of the World" as she is on the moody, dusky jazziness of "Won't Let You Down" and the instrumental "Navajo Moon" (which was written in memory of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of her major influences). Although very blues-friendly, Ana! Live in Amsterdam isn't strictly a document of a blues show -- rather, it is a document of a show in which the blues meet rock, soul, funk, and jazz. An interesting point: although Popovic grew up in the former Yugoslavia and is performing for a Dutch audience on this album, all of her introductions to the songs are in English -- the language that remains a common denominator for blues performers and blues fans all over the world. These days, rock and hip-hop are being performed in a variety of languages other than English, but English remains the official language of the blues -- even if the performer is as much of a non-purist as Popovic, whose excellent Ana! Live in Amsterdam makes it clear that she did the right thing by not waiting until she was 40 or 50 to provide a live album. ~ Alex Henderson, AllMusic Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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