Saturday, September 21, 2013


Dana FuchsBliss Avenue (Ruf Records).

This is Fuchs’ third album and follows 2011’s Love To Beg. Opening with the eponymous title track, a rough and ready Blues Rock with Janis Joplin vocal, she rips through 12 original songs. She’s not a one trick pony and changes style with ease; there’s Country (Rodents In The Attic, Daddy’s Little Girl, Nothin’ On My Mind), Rock (Vagabond Wind, How Did Things Get This Way) and Blues (Handful Too Many). Despite her songs rarely sticking strictly to one genre, one constant is her gravelly voice and this is used to best effect on Livin’ On A Sunday, How Did Things Get This Way and Baby Love The Life.



David Blue.

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