CANDYE KANE FEATURING LAURA CHAVEZ
''SISTER VAGABOND''
AUGUST 16 2011
49:30
1 /Love to Love You
Maxwell Davis / Jules Taub / John Watson 3:35
2 /Love Insurance
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 4:07
3 /Sweet Nothin's
Ronnie Self 4:05
4 /Walkin', Talkin' Haunted House
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 4:38
5 /You Never Cross My Mind
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 3:54
6 /Everybody's Gonna Love Somebody Tonight
Glenn Frey / Jack Tempchin 4:24
7 /You Can't Take It Back from Here
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 4:02
8 /Side Dish
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 2:48
9 /You Can't Hurt Me Anymore
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 2:47
10 /Hard Knock Gal
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 4:45
11 /Have a Nice Day
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 3:51
12 /Down with the Blues
Steve White 3:15
13 /I Deserve Love
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 3:26
Eddie Baytos /Accordion
Laura Chavez /Composer, Featured Artist, Guitar, Producer
Paul Fasulo /Drums
James Harman /Harmonica
Matt Hensley /Accordion
Stephen Hodges /Drums, Percussion
Nathan James /Guitar (Baritone), Slide Guitar
Candye Kane /Composer, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals
Tony Matoian /Sax (Baritone)
David Mosby /Vocals
Sue Palmer /Piano
Jeff Ross /Guitar
Kennan Shaw /Bass
Jonny Viau /Saxophone
Billy Watson /Harmonica
Mark Weisz /Organ
April West /Trombone
Thomas Yearsley /Engineer, Mixing, Organ, String Bass
REVIEW
by Steve Leggett
Los Angeles native Candye Kane is the 21st century version of Bessie Smith, singing a tough, smart, sassy, and showbiz-savvy blend of blues and soul that takes no prisoners of any persuasion. Kane has been a lot of things in her life, from a mother and serious student to a pinup girl and actress (both on-stage and in risqué [to say the least] movies), and she even did a stint as a serious, full-tilt punk rocker. She’d be just another fringe player in L.A. except for one thing -- she can sing like nobody’s business and she has a sexy, intelligent, and passionate musical vision to match her voice. On Sister Vagabond, her tenth album, Kane has really put it all together for her finest studio outing yet, mixing blues, torch soul, and funky swing numbers together into a smart and brassy whole, helped immeasurably by the brilliant guitar playing of longtime cohort Laura Chavez. The album, which opens with a fiery version of Johnny "Guitar" Watson's “I Love to Love You,” never lags or lulls, and Kane sings her heart out on song after song, sometimes with a wink, sometimes with a sexy bravado, and sometimes with an indignant sense of injustice. She turns Brenda Lee's “Sweet Nothin’s” into a brilliant, leering piece of Excello Records swamp pop that rides on Chavez's reverb-drenched guitar lines, and together, they completely reinvent the song. Kane transforms Glenn Frey and Jack Tempchin's “Everybody’s Gonna Love Somebody Tonight” into a blues stomper that replaces sad irony with passionate certainty, and on one of the nine originals that she wrote or co-wrote for the album, “You Can’t Take It Back from Here,” Kane manages to link Louis Armstrong, Storyville, dolphins, and the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill into a coherent, anguished rant that shows her considerable songwriting abilities. Kane may have a personal bio that suggests she’s a campy airhead, but nothing could be further from the truth. She’s an empowered, intelligent woman with a clear idea of what she’s doing, what era she’s in, and what her politics are, and best of all, she knows how to sing the blues in all of its flavors, and she sings like she’s been there and done that and isn’t afraid of what the end of the night brings. Candye Kane is the real deal, stripper name or not, and this is her best album to date.
BIOGRAPHY
by Steve Leggett
Los Angeles native Candye Kane sings a sassy and showbiz-savvy blend of blues and soul that takes no prisoners of any persuasion. Kane has been a lot of things in her life, from a mother and serious student to a pinup girl and actress (both on-stage and in risqué movies), and she even did a stint as a serious, full-tilt punk rocker. She'd be just another fringe player in L.A. except for two things -- she can sing like nobody's business and she has a sexy, intelligent, and passionate musical vision to match her voice.
Born November 13, 1965 in Ventura, California, Kane spent her childhood, a difficult one by her own account, in the Los Angeles suburb of Highland Park, and music and theater were her passion and saving graces. A pregnancy at 17 put her in financial trouble and she turned to stripping to pay the bills, eventually appearing in dozens of videos with titles like Bra Breakers and Big Busty. After a brief stint in USC's junior opera program in 1976, she did a left turn into punk rock, starting several country-punk bands in the early '80s, eventually coming to the attention of CBS/Epic, who signed her to a developmental deal in 1985. The label figured they had a country singer on their hands, but dropped Kane when her stripper past surfaced, although not before a debut album, A Town South of Bakersfield, was released in 1986. Kane moved on, relocated to San Diego, married, had another child, and attended Palomar Community College, where she majored in women's studies. She also worked hard on her songwriting, and after discovering the recordings of classic women blues singers like Bessie Smith, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, and Big Maybelle, she also began to form a vision of how she wanted to proceed as a singer and musician.
Kane self-released Burlesque Swing in 1991, and a year later in 1992 she signed with Antone's Records, which resulted in a pair of albums, 1994's Home Cookin' and 1995's Knockout. Moving to Discovery Records, Kane released Diva la Grande in 1997. Swango appeared from Sire/London a year later in 1998, followed by the impressive The Toughest Girl Alive on Rounder/Bullseye in 2000. Three albums with the German label Ruf Records, Whole Lotta Love (2003), White Trash Girl (2005), and Guitar'd and Feathered (2007), came next. In 2009 Kane signed with Delta Groove Records, and Superhero appeared from the imprint that same year. With her musical vision now firmly developed, Kane released a second album on Delta Groove, the very impressive Sister Vagabond, a searing set of blues and soul pieces, in 2011. Coming Out Swingin', featuring blues guitar goddess Laura Chavez, was issued on her Sister Cynic label via Vizztone in 2013.
''SISTER VAGABOND''
AUGUST 16 2011
49:30
1 /Love to Love You
Maxwell Davis / Jules Taub / John Watson 3:35
2 /Love Insurance
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 4:07
3 /Sweet Nothin's
Ronnie Self 4:05
4 /Walkin', Talkin' Haunted House
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 4:38
5 /You Never Cross My Mind
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 3:54
6 /Everybody's Gonna Love Somebody Tonight
Glenn Frey / Jack Tempchin 4:24
7 /You Can't Take It Back from Here
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 4:02
8 /Side Dish
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 2:48
9 /You Can't Hurt Me Anymore
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 2:47
10 /Hard Knock Gal
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 4:45
11 /Have a Nice Day
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 3:51
12 /Down with the Blues
Steve White 3:15
13 /I Deserve Love
Laura Chavez / Candye Kane 3:26
Eddie Baytos /Accordion
Laura Chavez /Composer, Featured Artist, Guitar, Producer
Paul Fasulo /Drums
James Harman /Harmonica
Matt Hensley /Accordion
Stephen Hodges /Drums, Percussion
Nathan James /Guitar (Baritone), Slide Guitar
Candye Kane /Composer, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals
Tony Matoian /Sax (Baritone)
David Mosby /Vocals
Sue Palmer /Piano
Jeff Ross /Guitar
Kennan Shaw /Bass
Jonny Viau /Saxophone
Billy Watson /Harmonica
Mark Weisz /Organ
April West /Trombone
Thomas Yearsley /Engineer, Mixing, Organ, String Bass
REVIEW
by Steve Leggett
Los Angeles native Candye Kane is the 21st century version of Bessie Smith, singing a tough, smart, sassy, and showbiz-savvy blend of blues and soul that takes no prisoners of any persuasion. Kane has been a lot of things in her life, from a mother and serious student to a pinup girl and actress (both on-stage and in risqué [to say the least] movies), and she even did a stint as a serious, full-tilt punk rocker. She’d be just another fringe player in L.A. except for one thing -- she can sing like nobody’s business and she has a sexy, intelligent, and passionate musical vision to match her voice. On Sister Vagabond, her tenth album, Kane has really put it all together for her finest studio outing yet, mixing blues, torch soul, and funky swing numbers together into a smart and brassy whole, helped immeasurably by the brilliant guitar playing of longtime cohort Laura Chavez. The album, which opens with a fiery version of Johnny "Guitar" Watson's “I Love to Love You,” never lags or lulls, and Kane sings her heart out on song after song, sometimes with a wink, sometimes with a sexy bravado, and sometimes with an indignant sense of injustice. She turns Brenda Lee's “Sweet Nothin’s” into a brilliant, leering piece of Excello Records swamp pop that rides on Chavez's reverb-drenched guitar lines, and together, they completely reinvent the song. Kane transforms Glenn Frey and Jack Tempchin's “Everybody’s Gonna Love Somebody Tonight” into a blues stomper that replaces sad irony with passionate certainty, and on one of the nine originals that she wrote or co-wrote for the album, “You Can’t Take It Back from Here,” Kane manages to link Louis Armstrong, Storyville, dolphins, and the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill into a coherent, anguished rant that shows her considerable songwriting abilities. Kane may have a personal bio that suggests she’s a campy airhead, but nothing could be further from the truth. She’s an empowered, intelligent woman with a clear idea of what she’s doing, what era she’s in, and what her politics are, and best of all, she knows how to sing the blues in all of its flavors, and she sings like she’s been there and done that and isn’t afraid of what the end of the night brings. Candye Kane is the real deal, stripper name or not, and this is her best album to date.
BIOGRAPHY
by Steve Leggett
Los Angeles native Candye Kane sings a sassy and showbiz-savvy blend of blues and soul that takes no prisoners of any persuasion. Kane has been a lot of things in her life, from a mother and serious student to a pinup girl and actress (both on-stage and in risqué movies), and she even did a stint as a serious, full-tilt punk rocker. She'd be just another fringe player in L.A. except for two things -- she can sing like nobody's business and she has a sexy, intelligent, and passionate musical vision to match her voice.
Born November 13, 1965 in Ventura, California, Kane spent her childhood, a difficult one by her own account, in the Los Angeles suburb of Highland Park, and music and theater were her passion and saving graces. A pregnancy at 17 put her in financial trouble and she turned to stripping to pay the bills, eventually appearing in dozens of videos with titles like Bra Breakers and Big Busty. After a brief stint in USC's junior opera program in 1976, she did a left turn into punk rock, starting several country-punk bands in the early '80s, eventually coming to the attention of CBS/Epic, who signed her to a developmental deal in 1985. The label figured they had a country singer on their hands, but dropped Kane when her stripper past surfaced, although not before a debut album, A Town South of Bakersfield, was released in 1986. Kane moved on, relocated to San Diego, married, had another child, and attended Palomar Community College, where she majored in women's studies. She also worked hard on her songwriting, and after discovering the recordings of classic women blues singers like Bessie Smith, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, and Big Maybelle, she also began to form a vision of how she wanted to proceed as a singer and musician.
Kane self-released Burlesque Swing in 1991, and a year later in 1992 she signed with Antone's Records, which resulted in a pair of albums, 1994's Home Cookin' and 1995's Knockout. Moving to Discovery Records, Kane released Diva la Grande in 1997. Swango appeared from Sire/London a year later in 1998, followed by the impressive The Toughest Girl Alive on Rounder/Bullseye in 2000. Three albums with the German label Ruf Records, Whole Lotta Love (2003), White Trash Girl (2005), and Guitar'd and Feathered (2007), came next. In 2009 Kane signed with Delta Groove Records, and Superhero appeared from the imprint that same year. With her musical vision now firmly developed, Kane released a second album on Delta Groove, the very impressive Sister Vagabond, a searing set of blues and soul pieces, in 2011. Coming Out Swingin', featuring blues guitar goddess Laura Chavez, was issued on her Sister Cynic label via Vizztone in 2013.
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