Biography

Few R&B singers endured tragic travails on the monumental level that Etta James did and remained on Earth to talk about it. But her personal problems seldom affected her singing. She hung in there from the age of R&B and doo wop in the mid-'50s through soul's late-'60s heyday, and right up to the turn of the century and beyond. Her voice deepened over the years but still conveyed remarkable passion and pain. In concert, she's a sassy performer whose suggestive stage antics sometimes border on the obscene. She paid her dues many times over as an R&B and soul pioneer. ~ Bill Dahl

Top Tracks

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• A Change Is Gonna Do Me Good

• All I Could Do Was Cry

• Ashes By Now

• At Last

• Baby, What You Want Me To Do

• Be My Lovey Dovey

• Blowin' In The Wind

• Blue Gardenia

• Cigarettes & Coffee

• Come Rain Or Come Shine

• Come To Mama

• Come What May

• Crawlin’ King Snake

• Cry Me A River

• Do Right Woman, Do Right Man

• Don't Cry Baby

• Don't Go To Strangers

• Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying

• Down By The Riverside

• Dreamer

• Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home

• Good Lookin'

• Good Morning Heartache

• Good Rockin' Daddy

• Gotta Serve Somebody

• He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

• Hey Henry

• Hound Dog

• How Strong Is A Woman?

• Hush Hush

• I Got You Babe

• I Just Want To Make Love To You

• I Saw The Light

• I Want To Ta-ta You Baby

• I'd Rather Go Blind

• If I Had Any Pride Left At All

• If It Ain't One Thing

• I'll Fly Away From Here

• It's A Crying Shame

• I've Been Loving You Too Long

• Kidney Stew Blues

• Let Me Down Easy

• Let's Burn Down The Cornfield

• Lil' Red Rooster

• Lil’ Red Rooster

• Lord, Don't Move The Mountain

• Mama Told Me

• Market Place

• Medley: At Last/trust Me/sunday Kind Of Love

• Misty Blue

• Money (that's What I Want)

• My Dearest Darling

• My Funny Valentine

• My Man

• Night And Day

• Nobody Loves You Like Me

• Oh Happy Day

• Only Women Bleed

• Out On The Street Again

• Piece Of My Heart

• Purple Rain

• Seven Day Fool

• Somebody To Love

• Something's Got A Hold On Me

• Sookie, Sookie

• Spoonful

• Stop On By

• Storms Of Troubled Times

• Strung Out

• Tell Mama

• The Wallflower

• The Blues Is My Business

• The Pick-up

• The Sky Is Crying

• The Wallflower

• The Wallflower (aka Dance With Me Henry)

• The Wallflower (aka Roll With Me Henry)

• The Wallflower (dance With Me Henry)

• The Wallflower (roll With Me Henry)

• These Foolish Things

• Tough Lover

• Try A Little Tenderness

• Two Sides (to Every Story)

• Watch Dog

• Willow Weep For Me

• W-o-m-a-n

Discography

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• The Dreamer

  Verve / Verve Forecast

  2011

• All the Way

  RCA Victor

  2006

• Let's Roll

  Private Music

  2003

• Burnin' Down the House: Live at the House of Blues

  RCA Victor / Private Music

  2002

• Blue Gardenia

  Private Music

  2001

• Matriarch of the Blues

  Private Music

  2000

• The Heart of a Woman

  Private Music / RCA

  1999

• Life, Love & the Blues

  Private Music

  1998

• Love's Been Rough on Me

  Private Music

  1997

• Time After Time

  Private Music

  1995

• Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday

  Private Music

  1994

• Live

  Tomato / Rhino

  1994

• The Right Time

  Elektra

  1992

• Stickin' to My Guns

  Island

  1990

• Jazzvisions: Jump the Blues Away

  Jazzvisions/Verve / Polygram

  1989

• Seven Year Itch

  Island

  1989

• he Late Show: Blues in the Night, Vol. 2

  Fantasy

  1986

• Blues in the Night, Vol. 1: The Early Show

  Fantasy

  1986

• Etta, Red-Hot & Live

  Quicksilver

  1982

• Deep in the Night

  Rounder Select / Bullseye Blues

  1978

• Etta Is Betta Than Evah

  Chess

  1978

• Come a Little Closer

  Chess / Universal Special Products

  1974

• Only a Fool

  1973

• Losers Weepers

  Kent

  1971

• Tell Mama [Chess]

  MCA/Chess

  1968

• Call My Name

  Kent

  1966

• The Queen of Soul

  1965

• Etta James Rocks the House

  Chess / MCA/Chess

  1964

• Top Ten

  1963

• Sings for Lovers

  Cadet

  1962

• The Second Time Around

  MCA/Chess

  1961