What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
Etta JamesThis is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
Etta JamesAnd as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
Etta James