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LOU ANN BARTON - Old Enough
YEAR: 1992 (1982)
STYLE: BLUES/R'N'B
LABLE: ANTONE'S RECORDS
COUNTRY: USA
"Although she doesn't tour nearly as much as she probably could, Austin-based vocalist Lou Ann Barton is one of the finest purveyors of raw,
unadulterated roadhouse blues from the female gender that you'll ever hear. Like Delbert McClinton, she can belt out a lyric so that she can be
heard over a two-guitar band with horns. Born February 17, 1954, in Fort Worth, she's a veteran of thousands of dance hall and club shows all
over Texas. Barton moved to Austin in the 1970s and later performed with the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.
Although she has a few great recordings out, notably Old Enough (1982, Asylum Records), produced by Jerry Wexler and Glenn Frey, Barton has to
be seen live to be fully appreciated. She belts out her lyrics in a twangy voice so full of Texas that you can smell the barbecue sauce. She swaggers
confidently about the stage, casually tossing her cigarette to the floor as the band kicks in on its first number. The grace, poise and confidence she
projects on stage is part of a long tradition for women blues singers. The blues world still needs more good female blues singers like Barton, to help
to broaden the appeal of the music to diverse audiences and to further its evolution. Barton has several other excellent albums out on the Austin-based
Antone's Records, Read My Lips (1989) and her cooperative effort with fellow Texas blues women Marcia Ball and Angela Strehli, Dreams Come True (1990).
Old Enough was reissued on compact disc in 1992 on the Antone's label. The only criticism one could level at Barton — and it may be unfair because
of business complications — is that she hasn't recorded much. Here's hoping that this premier interpreter of Texas roadhouse blues will be well recorded
through the rest of the 1990s (and forever after!)."
"...Old Enough is a mixture of tunes, old and new, couched in a hot, uncluttered production. The focus is always on the singing, though the musicians
have ample room to express themselves. Like Aretha Franklin, Lou Ann Barton is an interpretive artist with an extraordinary understanding of a lyric's
multilayered meanings. She can project a compelling viewpoint by emphasizing, lingering over or throwing away a line whenever she feels like it..."
~ www.rollingstone.com
MUSICIANS:
* LOU ANN BARTON — Lead Vocal
Guitars:
* WAYNE "NIGHT TRAIN" PERKINS, DUNCAN CAMERON, JIMMY JOHNSON, JIMMIE VAUGHAN, GLENN FREY
Keyboards:
* BARRY BECKETT, CLAYTON IVEY
Bass:
* DAVID HOOD
Drums:
* ROGER HAWKINS
Percussion:
* TOM ROADY
Horns:
* THE MUSCLE SHOALS HORNS
Trumpet And Arrangements:
* HARRISON CALLOWAY
Trombone:
* CHARLIE ROSE
Tenors:
* HARVEY THOMPSON, WALTER KING
Baritone:
* RONNIE EADES
Sax Solos on "It's Raining" and "Stop These Teardrops" by AL GARTH
Tenor Solo on "Finger Poppin' Time by GREG PICCOLO
Background Vocals:
* GLENN FREY, LENNY LeBLANC, EDDIE STRUZICK, CINDY RICHARDSON, AVA ALDRIDGE, LOU ANN BARTON
Background Vocals on "Finger Poppin' Time" by THE FLEMTONES |
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Tutta
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Posted - 18/11/2017 : 21:24:33
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Lou Ann Barton - Finger Poppin' Time
Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli, Marcia Ball: A Fool In Love
Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton and Angela Strehli (1989)
Hank Ballard and The Midnighters - Finger Poppin' Time
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Tutta
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Posted - 18/11/2017 : 21:25:03
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Margaret, Lou Ann Barton, and Kim Wilson at the 1987 Austin Music Awards, Austin Opera House (Photo by Martha Grenon)
Margaret Moser Tribute: Lou Ann Barton
The blues belter on what it's like to have your career chronicled by the best
(AS TOLD TO RAOUL HERNANDEZ, FRI., JUNE 30, 2017)
I met Margaret when I started working with the [Fabulous] Thunderbirds. She was 20, so I was 20, ’cause we’re the same age. This was when Antone’s opened
in 1975. I didn’t know anyone in that crowd, really. I knew the guys. Angela Strehli, Margaret Moser, Susan Antone, and Diana Ray were the first four girls that
reached out to say hello – and be my friend. Because I don’t think I was very well-liked: “Oh God, the Thunderbirds have hired a girl singer.”
I wasn’t in the Thunderbirds very long – about six, eight months. I went back up to Fort Worth and worked at the Bluebird Cafe with Mike Buck, Freddie Cisneros,
and Robert Ealey, but I wanted to come back to Austin. I’d heard that Stevie [Ray Vaughan] was tired of being in the Cobras, so I told him, “Why don’t you quit
the Cobras? You don’t like it anymore, and you and I can start a band.”
We did. We got our dream players: W.C. Clark, Jackie Newhouse, Mike Kindred, and Freddie Walden on drums. And at this time, there was no Austin Chronicle.
There was the fabulous Rumors, Gossip, Lies & Dreams magazine [laughs]. I was crashing between Denny Freeman and Keith Ferguson’s house, and one day,
Stevie walks in the door with a copy of Rumors, Gossip, Lies & Dreams and says, “When did you write this!?” I’m like, “What are you talking about?” It was this
little article Margaret had written, and it said something like, “Lou Ann Barton is back and she’s put together a new band with Stevie.”
Well, Stevie was infuriated. “This is not your band. This is our band! My band.” Margaret had gotten wind of the band and she had written the article on her own
– hadn’t asked me or anything. She loved me. We loved each other, and there she was, already in my corner.
Last year, I needed a new bio. I knew she was ill, but by the time I got with her, she was already on drugs where she told me, “This is what they give you when
there’s nothing else they can do.” She still wanted to write that bio.
Well, she wrote stuff in there that she knew about me before she even met me. Stuff that had been in Texas Monthly about a 17-year-old blues belter out of Fort
Worth, Texas. Something she had read I wasn’t even aware existed. She knew dates. The girl knew dates – and years.
“Write me something I can use the rest of my life,” I told her, “because nobody can run down my whole career and everything that’s happened to me better than
you. You know it all. You wrote about every point. You lived it with me.”
I will use it the rest of my life. |
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Posted - 18/11/2017 : 21:25:36
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LOU ANN BARTON - Read My Lips / 1991 (1989)
"If you can't hear the blues in this music, then honey, READ MY LIPS."
"The Bush-era machismo of the title aside, it's hard to imagine that anyone would need to venture beyond the sound of Lou Ann Barton's third album –
or the expanse of leg she flashes on the album's cover – to understand that this woman means nasty business. At age thirty-five, after nearly two decades
of live performance, this formidable Texas singer has pulled together a set of her favorite R&B burners, and the results are incendiary.
Barton's power as a singer derives not from assertive posturing but from her intuitive understanding of the emotional demands of her material. Her ability
to range from a bluesy moan to a fetching country twang in a single phrase makes her voice a living testimony to the roots of American popular music. She
sounds equally convincing – and equally strong – whether she's scorching a rocker like "Rocket in My Pocket," telling the hard truth on a searing cover of
Barbara Lynn's "You'll Lose a Good Thing" or squeezing the sadness out of "It's Raining," a ballad written by Allen Toussaint and defined by Irma Thomas.
In addition to assembling a fine selection of songs, Barton has kept matters simple and straightforward in her coproduction with Paul Ray. There's nothing
fancy or fussy here; the undeniable force of the playing, the singing and the songs tells the whole story. Guests like saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman,
harp player Kim Wilson and guitarists Jimmie Vaughan and David Grissom help out bassist Jon Blondell and drummer George Rains, and their performances,
far from being star turns, are entirely of a piece with the tunes. In Vaughan's case, Barton coaxes forth some of the most relaxed, articulate playing of his
career, particularly on "Sugar Coated Love" and Slim Harpo's delightful "Te Ni Nee Ni Nu."
Read My Lips combines the immediate pleasures of live performance with the ongoing rewards that recorded music must provide. "Let's go someplace where
we can rock a bit," Barton sings invitingly, but with this disc spinning, you won't need to move a step."
- ANTHONY DECURTIS
Lou Ann Barton - Sugar Coated Love
Lou Ann Barton - Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu
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Dani Montuori - Ti Ni Nee Ni Nu
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Dani Montuori - You got me running
Dani Montuori - The Voice Brasil - Georgia on my mind
Dani Montuori - Someone like you
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