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A big helping of risque blues & R&B from Britain's Queen Of Bawdy Blues Dana Gillespie. Drawing on NEW material & from her albums 'Blue Job', 'Below The Belt' & 'Sweet Meat', Dana belts her way through such classic material as Howlin' Wolf's 'Spoonful' & his boastful 'Built For Comfort' (both from the pen of Willie Dixon), Big Bill Broonzy's 'Too Many Drivers', Leiber & Stoller's 'Mainline Baby' & a slew of her own gritty compositions including 'Meat On Their Bones', 'Sailor's Delight', 'Horizontal Boogie' & 'Raise A Little Hell'.

Britain's premiere female blues singer returns to Ace with a 12 track album which she produced herself. Features 11 originals plus Frankie Miller's "There Will Always Be A New Tomorrow". Ace Records, 2000.

2010 release from the British Blues Queen. All 13 tracks were written by Dana, either on her own or with members of her top-notch band. Dana thinks it's the best record she's made for several years.

Have I Got the Blues for You is a good replication of classic female and jump blues from Dana Gillespie. Featuring a set of original material, Gillespie belts out big, brassy, bluesy songs with passion. While it occasionally treads a little too closely to parody and revivalism, Gillespie's powerhouse performance keeps things on track.

Little Steven Is Back With Soulfire! “I have very little interest in the modern world and I’m not in any way conflicted about that. I grew up in a renaissance period, a very lucky time when the greatest music ever made was also the most commercial. We’ll never see that again so for me, there’s only one criteria, which is greatness. That’s all I care about. Is what I’m doing reaching for greatness? Whether I achieve it or not, that is one hundred percent of my criteria.” – Stevie Van Zandt

Film Works is the accompaniment to last year's sublime Piano Works and embodies many of Armstrong's finest moments, including arrangements from Baz Lurhmann's 'Romeo and Juliet', for which he won a Bafta and Ivor Novello Award, and 'Moulin Rouge', for which he won a Golden Globe, Ivor Novello and American Institute Award. He notched up a third Ivor Novello for his music for Philip Noyce's 'The Quiet American'. Also on the album are arrangements from his scores for 'Ray', 'Love Actually', 'Plunkett and MacLeane', 'Cruel Intentions' and 'The Bone Collector'. The album closes with Craig's arrangement of the classic 'Clair de Lune' for the recent high profile 'Chanel No.5' ad starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Craig's long time cohort, Baz Luhrmann.

Erstwhile 10,000 Maniacs frontwoman Natalie Merchant continues her highly successful solo career with LIVE IN CONCERT, a show that was recorded at New York's Neil Simon Theater. The set opens, somewhat appropriately, with one of the songs that got Merchant's solo career off to a blazing start, "Wonder." As she usually does in live performance, Merchant plays with the lyrical phrasing of the song to add unexpected melisma and daring tonal gambits. Merchant lends the dark and ephemeral "San Andreas Fault" a lightly sultry quality not found on the studio version. Other familiar favorites include "Beloved Wife," "Carnival," and "Ophelia." Merchant revisits the Maniacs' catalog only once, for a rousing take on "Gun Shy." Two unexpected covers spice the middle of the set: a haunting and powerful reading of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," and a beautiful take on Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush".