It's easy to read Hurricane Katrina metaphors into everything New Orleans musicians record, but that tragedy runs deep through this set of understated piano-based songs by Crescent City's long-reigning queen of soul. Take "Cold Rain": On the surface, it's a spare, jazzy ballad about a doomed relatio...
2008 RS:
Summing up 30 years in soul music, Irma Thomas' Simply the Best is one of the great live R&B recordings. A scorching "Time Is on My Side" makes even prime Jagger sound feeble; an Otis medley honors the master; Crescent City classics such as "Iko Iko" never were zestier; and Allen Toussaint's "It's Raining" is balladry of a heart-stopping order.
Debuting in 1958 with the swaggering "You Can Have...
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