Dana Dericks

The road has led Dana Fuchs everywhere. But when it came to choosing a location for her version of Ruf Records’ now highly anticipated live double set, Songs From The Road, it had to be New York. The singer and the city have history. Almost two decades have passed since Dana left her home in rural Florida and beat a path to the Big Apple. Stepping onto the mean streets of the Lower East Side at age 19, she was an unknown singer with a voice and a dream, ready to slug it out on the city’s jam-circuit.

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.

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.

All Dana Fuchs has to do is sing. All it takes is one note from those celebrated lips and clocks stop, crowds snap to attention, hearts beat like bass drums and neck-hair tingles. It's often been said that the Florida-born frontwoman could sing the phone directory and still hold her listeners spellbound. True enough, but in 2013, when Dana applies that extraordinary voice to the classic songs from third album 'Bliss Avenue', you'll realise that you're in the presence of once-a-generation greatness. 'Bliss Avenue' is the most honest and unflinching studio album in Dana's catalogue.