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Since coming back on the national blues/R&B scene in the mid 1990s, Toni Lynn Washington has released an album every two or three years, working mainly with members of the thriving scene around her home base of Boston. Her first album for the Canadian Northern Blues label finds her collaborating with guitarist and producer Duke Robillard, on what amounts to a tribute to her forebears, performing classic songs associated with the likes of Ruth Brown, Ma Rainey and Dinah Washington. As always, she shows herself to be equally at ease on slow-rocking blues numbers like Bessie Smith's"Back Water Blues," the sassy, strutting "I Don't Hurt Anymore," the Memphis-style R&B "Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday," and spiced-up jazz standards, as on an interesting mid-tempo arrangement of "Willow Weep for Me." Her rendition of the Gamble and Huff song "It's Been a Long Time (Been So Long)" is, well, a bit too long; it doesn't have enough musical or lyrical substance to sustain a rendition that lasts over five minutes. But that's just about the only weak moment on this fine album. At an age when most people are settling into retirement, Toni Lynn Washington appears to just be hitting her stride. ~ Rick Anderson
Live Recording
Recorded at Duke's Mood Room, Pawtucket, Rhode Island and Club 39, Sudbury, Massachusetts.
Personnel: Toni Lynn Washington (vocals); Duke Robillard, Kevin Belz (guitar); Doug James, Gordon Beadle (baritone saxophone); Scott Aruda (trumpet); Bruce Bears (keyboards); Mark Texeira, Warren David Grant (drums).
Audio Mixer: Thom Hiller.
Liner Note Authors: Patty Mitchell ; Toni Lynn Washington.
Recording information: Club 39, Sudbury, MA; Duke's Mood Room, Pawtucket, RI.
Personnel: Toni Lynn Washington (vocals); Duke Robillard, Kevin Betz (guitar); Gordon Beadle, Chuck Langford (tenor saxophone); Doug James (baritone saxophone); Scott Aruda (trumpet); Bruce Bears (keyboards); Jesse Williams, Lou Ulrich (bass); Max Texeira, Warren Grant (drums).
Living Blues (9/03, p.54) - "...In her own low-key way, Toni Lynn Washington has ascended to the front line of contemporary blues vocalists, and this is her most fully realized outing yet..." Toni Lynn Washington Been So Long Songs Been So Long Review
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