Carrie Smith is a blues and jazz singer from Georgia. This CD has a nice mix actually of blues and jazz songs. They are all cover songs that you so often here from the women jazz/blues singers. It has taken me forever to listen to this CD, not because it is a bad one, but because there are 16 songs on the CD. I would get through the first 5 going to work, the next 5 going home, and I would forget what the first 5 sounded like so I would listen to them again, then the next 5... Are you getting the picture? I would never get to the last 6! Even though it took me forever to hear the whole thing, I do love this CD. It's a lot like the other women singers Ross had in his collection. Carrie Smith is in the vein of Ruth Brown, Ernestine Anderson, Nina Simone, and Ella Fitzgerald. I love them all. This CD is great too because it has some really upbeat, shake-your-tail-feather songs, and it also has some dark, sad, my-life-sucks songs.
My favorite song is #2 on the CD, Country Man. Not just because I heard it the most but because I love the words to it! "I need a man with a whole lot of energy." Hmm. It's about how she needs to find a country man because they have all kinds of energy to do everything around the farm and yet can keep up with (if you know what I mean) her. Classic. Unfortunately I couldn't find the song anywhere to let you all hear it. I did add "Ill Wind" just so you could hear her voice. It's also a song that many jazz singers have done a cover of and I do love every cover that I have heard of it.
I am sure Ross bought this because of his affinity for women who sing jazz and the blues like nobody's business. Carrie Smith is definitely in that category. I do find it interesting that when I looked her up online it said that she never really got popular here but has a cult following in Europe. Leave it to Ross to find music that is very obscure and yet awesome. I'm keeping this.
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