CD-Charts Position 1
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Peace, Love & BBQ

by: Marcia Ball

Release Date April 08, 2008
Excellent CD, not her very best in my opinion but it's excellent in that there isn't a single tune on the CD you don't want to hear again. I just dislike CD's where there's a song on it that you just wonder why it ever got recorded. Very good, still a Marcia Ball fan!

CD-Charts Position 2
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Live! Down the Road

by: Marcia Ball

Release Date April 26, 2005
This is one fun CD! Great music, great fun. You'll be smiling, singing along and tapping your feet.

CD-Charts Position 3
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Let Me Play with Your Poodle

by: Marcia Ball

Release Date June 24, 1997
Marcia delivers piano as sizzling uptempo or in yearning ballad forms and comes out sounding fab either way. The title track and Crawfishin' are instant classics, and all her slower moments are sweet and tender.

Not a duff track in the batch. The song blend of originals and covers is well focused, and lends creedance to the great history of music and life on the Bayou (Delbert McClinton, Randy Newman).

I've listended to a lot of blues influenced ivory ticklers on CD, and I've seen many a player hit the 88 keys live and in person, but Marcia delivers the right stuff from start to finish.

Her voice is warm and welcoming. Session heavyweight Doyle Bramhall (Sr.), joins in to add spice to the party in session. ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 4
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Presumed Innocent

by: Marcia Ball

Release Date April 24, 2001
Marcia has been influenced by many different styles of music, predominately blues and roots rock but also including R+B, country and jazz - even some Cajun. You can find elements of all these in this album though some are more obvious than others. She has never been a prolific recording artist but her albums are all of the highest quality. This wonderful album, mostly of good-time music, shows Marcia singing as good as ever and backed by plenty of great musicians, although she only occasionally shows her dynamic skills on the piano.

The songs are mainly original (often written by Marcia) but also include covers of You make it good (a cover of an Allen Toussaint song featuring Delbert McClinton as duet vocalist), I have the right to know ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 5
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Gatorhythms

by: Marcia Ball

Release Date June 20, 1989
I heard from Marcia on a Blues webcast.I bought 3 of her albums including her Live Down the Road. It was mainly based on a single review on the album page." Great sax on the many solos".. That sax man is awful. Bad notes, phrasing, and amature style. Gator rhythms was not what I expected either. Marcia is a terrific talent we saw in Bay St Louis some time back before the town was blown away. These Albums miss the mark. sorry.

CD-Charts Position 6
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Blue House

by: Marcia Ball

Release Date August 16, 1994
Marcia is a fine singer who writes many of her own songs, though she is never afraid to record covers where they are suitable. Her albums can be almost relentlessly upbeat, as with Hot tamale baby, but this is generally a much sadder album - more like one would expect from a blues singer.

Marcia still demonstrates her Jerry Lee-ish piano playing here, on the opening Red beans, the third track Down the road and particularly on her cover of Joe Ely's Fingernails, but those are not typical of this particular album.

More typical is the title track, in which Marcia painted her house blue after her man left for good, or St Gabriel, about being sent to prison and later being released with nowhere to go.

This is a fine album that demonstrates ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 7
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Hot Tamale Baby

by: Marcia Ball

Release Date October 25, 1990
Marcia Ball is one of the countless legend of rockers who have toured the Bars across American forever. She have made a living being a bar band. The best thing about her concert is that at the end of the evening, as you walking to your car, about all you can say is "wow, that was fun." This pretty much somes her up. Her free style, top tapping, good time show, is captured here on this album. Starting with teh sone "Never like this before" and running to "Un-Uh Baby". If you are not a fan of her music, then this is a great place to start.

CD-Charts Position 8
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So Many Rivers

by: Marcia Ball

Release Date April 22, 2003
This is a fabulous album. I highly recommend it to everyone interested to just purely great music. Not noise. End of story.

CD-Charts Position 9
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Dreams Come True

by: Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli, Marcia Ball

Release Date September 19, 1990
Its a pretty good cd , it came in a few days in excellent condition

CD-Charts Position 10
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Soulful Dress

by: Marcia Ball

Release Date August 22, 1989
This CD is a very good effort from Marcia. The songs move from mid tempo to slower but all have a very catchy groove. Marcia has an underrated voice and she sings her songs with great emotion. There are many highlights on this CD and songs that stick with me throughout the day after listening to them. They somehow "stick themselves" in your mind and repeat themselves in your mind over and over.

Another must for blues fans, an underrated one that should be added as soon as possible to your collection.