Unconditional CD

MUSIC

JAZZ

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Fearless Blues ~ Ana Popovic

2. Count Me In ~ Ana Popovic

3. Unconditional ~ Ana Popovic

4. Reset Rewind ~ Ana Popovic

5. Slideshow ~ Ana Popovic

6. Business As Usual ~ Ana Popovic

7. Your Love Ain't Real ~ Ana Popovic

8. Work Song ~ Ana Popovic

9. Summer Rain ~ Ana Popovic

10. Voodoo Woman ~ Ana Popovic

11. One Room Country Shack ~ Ana Popovic

12. Soulful Dress ~ Ana Popovic

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel: Ana Popovic (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar); Tom Fitzpatrick (saxophone); Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown (trumpet); Doug Belote (drums); Jerome Alexander, Avist Martin Mycartery "Scooter" Groce (background vocals).
	Audio Mixer: John Porter.
	Recording information: Jon Cleary Studio, New Orleans; Piety Studios, New Orleans.
	Photographer: Sjoerd De Wit.
	The modern blues world has its share of artists who excel in some areas but fall short in others. For example, someone who excels as a guitarist might be merely adequate as a singer; or, someone who excels as a songwriter might be merely an average singer and not play an instrument particularly well. But Ana Popovic is a triple threat: she is an excellent singer, an excellent guitarist, and an excellent songwriter. And her strength in all of those areas is evident on Unconditional. The native of Belgrade, Serbia (formerly Belgrade, Yugoslavia) includes one instrumental on this 2011 release: the intense "Slideshow," which gives her a chance to really let it rip on her electric guitar and show just how strong her chops are on that instrument. Popovic rocks aggressively hard on "Slideshow," and there is also plenty of hard-rocking intensity on "Count Me In" (a Popovic original) and Cora Taylor's "Voodoo Woman." Meanwhile, Popovic's love of classic soul comes through loud and clear on "Your Love Ain't Real," "Reset Rewind," and "Summer Rain" (all of which she either wrote or co-wrote). She is blues-oriented, but she has never claimed to be a purist or made any secret of her passion for rock, soul, and jazz, and speaking of jazz, she gives us a very pleasant surprise on a burning performance of Nat Adderley's "Work Song." The Adderley standard has often been performed as instrumental soul-jazz/hard bop, but the lyrics that Oscar Brown, Jr. wrote for "Work Song" have been performed by quite a few jazz vocalists; Popovic's version is unusual in that it rocks so hard, and isn't without an awareness of jazz, but she definitely adds plenty of blues-rock muscle to an Adderley classic. Listeners who have enjoyed Popovic's previous releases will find that her high standards are very much intact on the consistently absorbing Unconditional. ~ Alex Henderson
Producer: John Porter; Ana Popovic
Engineer: Wesley Fontenot; Mike Dorsey; John Porter

Compilation Appearances

	Blues Guitar Women
	Ruf Records 10th Anniversary Sampler
	Where Blues Crosses Over: 12 Years Of Ruf Rec

Technical Info

	Release Date : 08/16/2011
	Original Release Date : 2011
	Catalog ID : EGRCD 513
	Label : Eclecto Groove Records
	Number of Discs : 1
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00850021001636

Professional Reviews

Living Blues (p.65)
- "A smoldering, extended version of Mercy Dee Walton's 'One Room Country Shack' is both urgent and poignant, and one of the finest moments on the disc."

BloomReach Content

Unconditional (2011)

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