Rita Engedalen

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where does everybody go

Album: the tree still standing

Released: Jul 1, 2008

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where does everybody go
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Lord help the poor and needy
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Genre: Blues / Folk / Roots Music
Location NO
Profile Views: 28853
Last Login: 9/7/2011
Member Since 2/12/2007
Website www.ritaengedalen.com
Record Label Grammofon-----www.grammofon.no
Type of Label Indie
Bio
THE TREE STILL STANDING---- Here you will get the continuation of my previous CD, the Norwegian Grammy award winning CD, ”Heaven Aint Ready For Me Yet”. My musicians and myself have continued our musical journey into the deep blues and traditional American folk music, something which has helped us develop our own musical expression, which we are very pleased to bring to both small and larger venues. Some clues to my musical inspiration are the deep blues, gospel, bluegrass and roots musics. Several of my songs can be experienced as musical travel journals, especially from Mississippi. I can tell you that the song “She Wolf” is about my meeting with the late Jessie Mae Hemphill, and how she brought me safely home from the club Ground Zero a dark night in Clarksdale. The song ” Issaquena ” is a travel journal from our last trip to Mississippi, when we played at the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in Clarksdale.----- Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash are artists I grew up with, and that have been with me all along. This is why it has come natural to me to include some bluegrass and roots music. I have my own songs, but this album also included a couple of songs by some blues ladies who will always mean a lot to me. These ladies are incredibly important, and in my opinion deserve a much larger spot in the history of music.----- I recommend you all to listen to Jessie Mae Hemphill, the uncrowned queen of hill country blues. I also strongly recommend Kristin Berglund’s album”Women Rock the Cradle of the Blues”, where she honours, as well as tells stories about the tough women of the Blues. It is important that the music from all these ladies of the blues gets the attention it deserves and that their music keeps on living.------ I hope you’ll enjoy my musical journey and my personal stories, which hopefully can be sad, meditative and funny.------ I’m changed but I’m still here…------ Rita Engedalen, june 2008-------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT HER CD “HEAVEN AIN’T READY FOR ME YET” This CD won the Norwegian grammy award for best blues CD 2006: This CD contains a solid blend of American folk music from areas and districts not familiar to the big audience. Rita’s musical journey goes far away from the busy freeways. She moves on dusty roads, back and forth from the Appalachian Mountains to the Delta. The Mississippi Hill Country is her natural resting place. Music from those areas has an intense nerve and a deep soul as the main ingredients. Those songs are often built upon a simple, repetitive chord progression with deeply felt emotions and the raw power of trance. Making songs in these musical terms is for Rita very natural; she’s actually a natural born master. The recordings on this CD are often cut on the first take with very few overdubs, just to capture Rita and her musician’s enthusiasm and soulful spirit. All this combined with Rita’s strong and rich voice make this CD into a rare bird in the Norwegian music scene. Free your mind, listen and enjoy! .. I edited my profile with ..Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4.. .. .. .. .. ..
Members
RITA ENGEDALEN (VOCALS--GUITAR) MORTEN OMLID (GUITAR--BACKGROUND VOCALS) ESKIL AASLAND (DRUMS--BACKGROUNDVOCALS) JENS HAUGEN--BASS .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... .......... BLUESWAX REVUE Essential Blues Traditions, (11/19/08) Essential Blues traditions have been handed to Norway's Rita Engedalen. Her deep friendships with mentors like the late Kristin Berglund and Jessie Mae Hemphill have given Engedalen the inner fire to carry on. From Berglund, Engedalen learned the histories of women who rocked the Blues from Bessie to Janis. From Hemphill, Engedalen beheld the Blues one lives in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It was through her Delta visits with Hemphill that Engedalen became baptized in the waters of the Sunflower River. Her last record, Heaven Ain't Ready Yet, won the 2006 Norwegian Grammy as Best Blues album. And I can tell you that, because Norway has a huge number of top-notch Blues bands and artists, winning that award is quite an accomplishment. Engedalen herself is a competent songwriter who is able to effortlessly combine elements of American Blues and Folk music with her own Norwegian Folk traditions. She is an accomplished guitarist and, after three records and years of hard touring both solo and with her band, Engedalen has worked hard to become a polished vocalist. She no longer sings with a pronounced accent; she easily connects her stories to her listeners. To hear the proof, fast forward to her assured treatment of "Let Go," wherein Engedalen's controlled, emotional build-up effortlessly speaks to all. Backing Engedalen on this record are her regular band, featuring Morton Omlid, one of Norway's finest Blues guitarists. On the opening tune, "Where Does Everybody Go," Omlid adds an understated Mark Knopfler-styled guitar and Eskil Aasland gently brushes the drums as Engedalen connects to her Folk roots. Her visits with Jessie Mae are chronicled in her profile of Hemphill on "They Call Her She Wolf." In "Issaquena," Engedalen sings vivid snapshots about playing at the Sunflower Blues Festival. Knut Nyheim's mournful Norwegian fiddle and Engedalen's finger-picked guitar unite the Folk music of these two cultures. The heavy bass of Jens Haugen and the church-like B3 of Espen Fjelle help Engedalen get deep into the Gospel music of the South on "Lord Help The Poor And Needy." The addition of banjo and Dobro on "They Go From The North To The South" augments the women's hardships that Engedalen and Margit Bakken vocalize. When Engedalen covers others, she picks acoustic guitar and Jostein Forsberg blows acoustic harp on Janis Joplin's "Turtle Blues." Her take on another mentor, Memphis Minnie, has Omlid and Engedalen doing "Keep On Going." On Maria McKee's "You Are The Light," the angelic voices of Engedalen and Margit Bakken meld their Norwegian Stave Church backgrounds with cotton field testifyin'. The record ends with "I'm Changed," Engedalen's personal message that all her experiences of loss and joy only serve to strengthen her future bearing and that the lessons of her mentors will always be part of her vision. This will certainly be a contender for another Norwegian Grammy Award. Art Tipaldi is a senior contributing editor at BluesWax. You may contact Art at blueswax@visnat.com. Utgivelser : Grammofon : Rita Engedalen - Â«The tree still standingÂ»
Influences
Janis Joplin-Tina Turner-Jessie Mae Hemphill-Big Mama Thornton and other strong mamas on the bluesscene---- .. .. .. .. ..
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