Diamond Baby Blues
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| Studio album by Lee Aaron | ||||
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April 27, 2018 |
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| Label (s) | Big Sister Records | |||
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
51:05 |
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John Webster, Lee Aaron |
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Studio (s) |
Hipposonic Studio, Chez Jean |
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Diamond Baby Blues is the title of the fourteenth album by Canadian singer Lee Aaron , released in 2018 .
background
Lee Aaron recorded her first album since Beautiful Things in 2016 after 12 years . Fire and Gasoline was also the first album in 22 years that marked a return to the rock genre , which the singer had occupied especially in the 1980s. During this phase of her musical career, she was marketed as the Queen of Heavy Metal . As a result, Fire and Gasoline turned out to be a "basically classic hard rock album with modern pop melodies and a slight touch of punk ".
In the live program of the subsequent tour , Aaron included her previous hits and two titles by Fire and Gasoline as well as blues-heavy rock songs such as Mistreated by Deep Purple ( Burn ) or I'm a Woman by Bo Diddley , and she also presented them to her audience Diamond Baby was already a song that she only released on the next studio album, which was still to be recorded at that time.
In 2018, Aaron started work on another studio album. The recordings were made in the "Hippo Sonic Studios" and "Studio Chez Jeanne" in Vancouver conducted and John Webster produced .
Aaron also recorded several cover versions for it. In addition to the Mistreated and I'm a Woman already presented on the previous tour , she also took on Janet Jackson's Black Cat . Also in 1955, first published My Babe by Willie Dixon , the only number-one hit in the US R & B - charts that he had ever written, was reinterpreted by Aaron for the album. The track Cut Way Back, written by the American rock, country and blues musician and songwriter Tom Hambridge, had not yet been released on a studio album and had only been played by Hambridge at his own gigs.
Diamond Baby Blues also contains five tracks that were written by Aaron himself or with musicians from her band, two other tracks are third-party compositions: Hard Road was written by long-time AC / DC producers George Young , Harry Vanda , by Clint Ballard Jr The title You're No Good came from .
Diamond Baby Blues was released on CD April 20, 2018 and made available through online music services.
Track list
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| No. | title | Songwriter | length |
| 1. | Diamond baby | Dave Reimer, Lee Aaron | 3:29 |
| 2. | Mistreated | Ritchie Blackmore , David Coverdale | 7:11 |
| 3. | American high | Aaron, Sean Kelly | 4:12 |
| 4th | I'm a woman | Bo Diddley | 4:27 |
| 5. | Mercy | Aaron | 3: §8 |
| 6th | Best thing | Aaron | 6:32 |
| 7th | Black Cat | Janet Jackson | 4:40 |
| 8th. | Hard Road | George Young , Harry Vanda | 4:02 |
| 9. | In the bedroom | Aaron, Kelly | 3:15 |
| 10. | Cut way back | Tom Hambridge | 4:10 |
| 11. | You're no good | Clint Ballard Jr. | 2:52 |
| 12. | My babe | Willie Dixon | 2:32 |
| Overall length: | 51:05 | ||
reception
Holger Stratmann wrote in Rock Hard that the artist could still sing “as hell as hell,” Diamond Baby Blues ?? is “more bluesy” than the previous album Fire and Gasoline and leaves “more space for the accompanying musicians.” Aaron sounds “always good when they are allowed to set liquid mainstream hard rock to music”, something with the songs Diamond Baby ', American High and Mercy succeeded "pretty well". The material is "played crisp enough," but overall the author misses "musical fire." The album points "in the right direction," but should have "better focused on snotty, pithy radio rock".
In Rocks magazine , reviewer Amir Shaheen had a different opinion: Aaron had arrived in blues rock, which the "rocky rock band" but tightly "haired" to "heavy". She interprets the cover versions “with heart and soul, as if they were her own creations”, and Janet Jackson's “ skinny ” Black Cat nurses her “to new life”. The songs would “bring out the richness of her voice” and would “suit her advanced age far better”.
Web links
- Diamond Baby Blues at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Baro in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, Issue 02/2016, page 18
- ↑ Information about the album at discogs.com , accessed October 6, 2019
- ↑ Review in Rock Hard, issue 372 , accessed online on October 5, 2019
- ↑ Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 03/2018, page 92