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person she is. The duet with Jack Semple, ‘Last Time I’m Lovin’ You’, lays down that N’Awlins funk

and adds some humour, whereas ‘If We Haven’t Got Love’ is a more serious social critique. ‘Don’t Ever
Leave Me’ is another noteworthy blues-ballad, with a stripped-down accompaniment, in contrast to

the joyously rocking ‘I’m Comin’ Around’, guaranteed to get anyone’s feet moving, and ‘My Grateful
Song’ is a nicely controlled straight mid-tempo blues. ‘Let Me Love You Tonight’ has a hint of ‘Tell It

Like It Is’ in the melody and a strong tinge of Etta James in the vocal, the solo ‘Please Forgive Me

Blues’ is an excellent performance and this highly-rated release closes out with the somewhat atypical
blues-rock tinged ‘Side On Sue’. Recommended, of course!

Norman Darwen
(www.debrapower.com)

Sister Lucille/ “Alive” (Endless Blues EBR132019)

The opening track has a big fat horn section, a riff influenced by
New Orleans funk kings The Meters, and a nicely sassy vocal by the
band’s frontwoman Kimberley Dill. Then there is ‘See My Baby’, a

heavy, North Mississippi Hill Country styled blues-rock number
with lead vocal by guitarist (and the band’s main song-writer)
Jamie Holdren – here on cigar-box guitar - and the sexy ‘Devil’s

Eyes’, with a sultry vocal by Kimberley again, a Latin-inflected
rhythm, classic West side Chicago guitar work and some low-down
trumpet. So who are these guys? Well Kimberley and Jamie are a

married couple, with a rhythm section of drummer Kevin Lyons and bass player Eric Guinn. This set
was primarily recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, and several Memphis musicians help out to good
effect, though the band itself is out of Springfield, Missouri. No matter – the band can cut that

Memphis blues-funk, as even the briefest of listens to the joyous cover of Ann Peebles’ ‘99 Pounds’
proves beyond dispute – and Kimberley also turns in a more than creditable cover of Etta James’
‘W-O-M-A-N’ to underscore her credentials. The band’s own originals are all fine, from the low-down

blues of ‘Respect Your Woman’ (with fine blues harp by Eric Hughes) to the tightly controlled bluesoul
of the title track and the slow, heartfelt closing song, a ballad entitled ‘Lost’. One very talented band,
no doubt about it.

Norman Darwen
Sari Schorr – Live In Europe (Manhaton HATMAN 2053)

Since emerging onto the UK blues scene around the middle of the

last decade, New Yorker Sari has become a regular and popular
draw here and on an international basis. Mike Vernon produced her

first album, “A Force Of Nature” in 2016 and she followed it up two
years later with “Never Say Never”. Now here is a live album that

certainly captures the high-energy approach of the singer and her

band, including Bob Fridzema on keyboards and Ash Wilson on
guitars. It has a huge sound, with Sari’s immensely powerful,