Susan Angeletti. She tells it like it is. It might be through that old stalwart mechanism of blues rock but it isn't the means it's the message that is important here. She's got the pipes for the job too. Jazz wouldn't suit her but outrunning thudding drums and the hardcore blues guitar of Bruce Korona proves to be not much of a challenge at all.
Proper singers bring life to songs and that happens here. While many of the songs – mostly self penned – have the air of familiarity, Ms Angeletti rolls reality into every word. What woman wouldn't raise their drink once synchronised to the sentiments expressed in the title track "Wisdom"? Not many I would hazard.
Consistency is another of Ms Angeletti's strongpoints. There's a theme running through the songs on this album and it's one that many will be familiar with. We are not talking the brutalised directness of, say, Cathy Jean but more the get on with it approach of Etta James. Still, there is always time to get out there and party and this thought is duly energised by "Got To Have You Baby".
As the old saying goes, it's one for my baby and one for the road. If Ms Angeletti would be my baby then I would drive her home (after taking her for a nice steak dinner, of course).
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