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straight-ahead blues, I guess. I see myself as a musician who enjoys many genres of music, and
the blues genre is natural to me, as it suits my voice and sensibility, as do roots, rhythm and

blues, soul, country rock, blues rock and hard rock. I am looking forward to a world where the
segregation of musicians into certain categories is no longer a thing. I would like to see the era
of the massive rock or pop stars die down and have more of a grass roots type of thing, more
community based, and way less money and connections based. The music business has been
controlled by some very negative agendas for far too long - because music is such a powerful
way to reach people.
LL: Can you tell us about the musicians and crew who contributed to the album please?

SJ: “Bitches Blues” was produced by Derek Sharp, who did an excellent job, once again, and
then we have the great Chris
Caddell on most of the guitar

solos, and the astonishing Jimmy
Reid playing all sorts of cool
guitar shit and that wild and
wacky electric sitar at the
beginning of ‘Change Is Coming’.
Jesse O’Brien is on the keys - he’s
such a wonderful musician, and
he’s into all those styles that I

love so much, like The Band, all
the iconic New Orleans stuff like
Professor Longhair, Dr. John, The
Meters etc. We got the incredible
Steve Marriner on bass and
harmonica … that guy is a legend
in my mind, already. And last, but not least, my dear Cass Pereira on drums and percussion.
LL: You’ve been successful in the music business for many decades. What are your
thoughts on where the music industry and artists are at today?

SJ: I have to say that I don’t pay that much attention to the music business in general. I am

lucky to find artists that I like - and I think it is a very wide scope - I enjoy all kinds of music! I
think it’s great that people can do things today without having to rely on that big old music biz
machine that had a stranglehold on creativity when I started. There are many, many brilliant
artists out there who are figuring out how to do their thing without much help - and there are
avenues for being noticed now that didn’t exist when I was coming up. The only thing is that it
is so saturated that it can be challenging to get noticed.
LL: What can Sass Jordan fans look forward to coming up for you?

SJ: I always have ideas and projects on the go - if you like what I do, there will always be

more!!!
~ Lawrence Lebo

Lawrence Lebo is an award winning, critically acclaimed Blues recording artist living in
Los Angeles, CA, USA. She can be found on the web at www.lawrencelebo.com