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World Village/Harmonia Mundi proudly announces the release of vocalist CATHERINE RUSSELL’s, "INSIDE THIS HEART OF MINE" on APRIL 13, 2010. Her third album for the label, "INSIDE THIS HEART OF MINE" is a collection of 13 songs -- tied together by the special place these songs hold inside the heart of Catherine Russell. It's a heart that's warm and effusive, bluesy and erudite, bold yet vulnerable, passionate yet ethereal. Just listen to Cat's masterful reading of “Troubled Waters”, a seldom heard tune scored by the Duke Ellington Orchestra for both Ivey Anderson and Mae West, performed here as a sultry meditation. Then there's “We The People”, a never before covered Fats Waller tune from an originally unreleased recording, a tongue-in-cheek populist manifesto from the previous Great Depression, which implores legislators to provide “syncopation” as the surest way to “please the people.” The Spencer Williams languid blues melody, "Slow As Molasses", was originally recorded as an instrumental by Luis Russell in 1929 with his band The Jungle Town Stompers. Wordsmith Rachelle Garniez added lyrics just for these sessions, allowing Cat’s evocative vocal spin on the new creation, some 80 years following her Dad’s original version. READ MORE…
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