SET TO RELEASE THE TATTOOED LADY AND THE ALLIGATOR MAN ON SEPTEMBER
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Award-winning pianist/vocalist/songwriter Marcia Ball will release her new Alligator Records CD,
The
Tattooed Lady And The Alligator Man, on September 23,
2014. The Texas-born, Louisiana-raised Ball has earned worldwide fame for her
ability to ignite a full-scale roadhouse rhythm and blues party every time she
strolls onto the stage. Her groove-laden New Orleans boogie, deeply soulful
ballads and rollicking Gulf Coast blues have made her a one-of-a-kind favorite
with music fans all over the world.
On The Tattooed Lady And
The Alligator Man, Ball draws listeners deep into her music with
instantly memorable melodies and imaginative imagery. Her songs paint vibrant
musical pictures, richly detailed with characters, flavors and scenes straight
out of Louisiana and Texas. With raucous horns punctuating Ball’s
legendary piano pounding and emotional, melodic vocals, the new CD mixes Ball’s
New Orleans R&B, swampy Louisiana ballads, and jumping, Tex-Mex flavored
zydeco into a one-of-a-kind musical gumbo, a sound she has been perfecting over
the course of her four-decade career.
From the poignant Just
Keep Holding On to the fresh start of Clean My House to the
surprising and timely The Squeeze Is On to the southern warmth of
Human Kindness, Ball has delivered a set of songs so well written and
so well performed, she’ll astound and delight her longtime fans and give
newcomers plenty of reasons to join the party. Featuring her stellar,
road-tested touring band, with help from friends Delbert McClinton and Terrance
Simien and production by Grammy-winner Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Joe Louis
Walker, James Cotton, Susan Tedeschi), The Tattooed Lady And The
Alligator Man is happy, moving, joyful, stirring,
thought-provoking, danceable and fun.
After a 1978 solo LP for
Capitol and a successful series of releases on Rounder, Ball joined the
Alligator Records family in 2001 with the release of the critically acclaimed
Presumed Innocent. The CD took home the 2002 Blues Music Award for
Blues Album Of The Year. 2004’s So Many Rivers, 2005’s Live! Down
The Road, 2008’s Peace, Love & BBQ and 2010’s Roadside
Attractions all received Grammy Award nominations as well as critical and
popular acclaim. In 2010, Ball was inducted into the Gulf Coast Music Hall Of
Fame and in 2012 into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. She’s received a total
of seven Living Blues Awards and nine Blues Music Awards (and has
earned a whopping 42 nominations).
The New York
Times says, “Marcia Ball plays two-fisted New Orleans barrelhouse piano and
sings in a husky, knowing voice about all the trouble men and women can get into
on the way to a good time.” Living Blues declares, “Her originals sound
like timeless classics and southern soul masterpieces that no one else can
imitate.” Of the new album, Ball says, “I don’t make a record until I have
something to say, stories to tell, messages to impart. I try to make records
that are true to me,” she continues, “and this one couldn’t be truer.”