remphish1 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 http://www.spinner.com/2012/01/20/etta-james-dead-dies/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D129005 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 RIP indeed. I only saw her once and it was at a Grateful Dead show. On 12/30/82 she and the Tower of Power horns came out for the two-song encore. (They played a longer set the next night.) But she was one of the greats. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
choo-choo-charlie Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Holy smokes. Be well, Etta, in that great jam up in the sky. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 She certainly went out on a high note. She got alot of notice from the movie Cadiilac Records, she had a new album come out that got good reviews, and she didn't die in obscurity. Great work. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
choo-choo-charlie Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 If I had a dollar for every Facebook post I'm seeing right now with a link to a video of "At Last" and comments like "This was our wedding song..." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ThisIsNowhere Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 This is so sad. So many great musicians have been dying recently And Etta was one of the best. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
winterland121072 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 RIP... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Somewhat fitting that Johnny Ois and Etta James passed within days of each other... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dagwave Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 geeeez.stinks stinks stinksshe owned the mic like few others.just caught her in "Standing in the Shadows of Love"always a prescence always a pro always shoot shoot shoot Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 She lived here in my city, Riverside, CA. I got to see her perform an outdoor concert back in 2001, down by the beautiful old courthouse. She was fabulous. The city paper did a great extensive front page (and continuing inside) article on her life yesterday. What an amazing woman, what a life! I noticed too that Johnny Otis, who discovered her, died just the day before she did. How fitting that he was there on the other side to wave and yell, "Hey Etta! This way!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 In what must be one of the stranger re-marketing moves ever, I have a copy of this album which capitalized on the twist craze of the early 60s. Somehow someone figured that Etta James' songs worked as material for the twist. I don't really know if I agree, but her signature hit Roll with me Henry is rebranded on this album. No mention of the twist in the song, just a bunch of Etta's songs with an explaination on how to do the twist on the back along with diagrams of what to do with your feet and body. Pretty humorous. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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