Sandra Hall & Gnola Blues Band - Tell Me

From the Album: Red Bone Woman, Year of Release: 2006 Lyrics: Tell Me Her powerful voice and her exceptional, sometimes raunchy stage presence, her professionalism and her determination have earned Sandra Hall the nickname of the Empress of the blues. » A native of Atlanta, Sandra Hall grew up nearby, in a small town where her grandfather was a pastor. Along with her sister Barbara, she began singing gospel at the age of four, with their grandmother at the piano while their mother was on tour, also singing gospel. Eight years later, the two sisters set up the Soul Sisters and began to sing in clubs. From 1965, Sandra Hall was a singer and dancer in the Exotics, a female group that occasionally opened for artists whose tour passed through Atlanta. This allows him to rub shoulders with big names in soul and blues, such as BB King, Otis Redding, Bo Diddley or Etta James. After about ten years, her career takes on another dimension and it is now under her name that she sings, tours and records. However, she could not always lead a full-time musical career and was sometimes required to work as a nurse, dancer or stripper. She also makes the choice to take the time to raise her daughter. Despite these intermittences, his career is rich in numerous American but also European tours (Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands, France). She has shared the stage with legendary artists such as James Brown, BB King, Johnny Taylor, Otis Redding, Bo Diddley, The Temptations, The O’Jays, Etta James, Mavis Staples and Jimi Hendrix. Sandra Hall recorded the excellent “Showin’ Off” (1995) and “One Drop Will Do You” (1997) for Ichiban Records, a major label based in Atlanta. “American Roots: Blues” (Ichiban, 2002) compiles tracks from these albums while “Miss Red Riding Hood” is self-produced from 2001. Sandra Hall also recorded “Red Bone Woman” (Slang) in 2006 with the Italian group Gnola Blues Band. In the summer 2003 meeting with the singer of Atlanta, Sandra Hall, where it is an intense collaboration that continues today with a series of concerts to major festivals in Italy (including Pistoia Blues 07) and in Europe and the Registration of the so-called “Red Bone Woman“ (2007), eleven tracks of which nine are signed by Mugnaini and the same with Glielmo Sandra Hall. Sandra Hall - Vocalist Gnola Blues Band : Maurizio “Gnola“ Glielmo - Guitars, Background Vocalist Roger Mugnaini - Piano, Hammond, Background Vocalist Tix Cimaschi - Bass Max Bertagna - Drums Max Negri - Sax Lilian Stoimenov - Trumpet You can download the music : Sandra L. Hall (born September 5, 1951) is an American blues and soul blues singer and songwriter. She has been billed as Atlanta’s “Empress of the Blues“ Hall is an Honorary Member of the Atlanta Blues Society. To date she has released five albums, including three on Ichiban Records VIDEO COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: Video is made for entertainment purposes only and you can download this track on any authorized website such as, iTunes and ... No copyright infringement is intended in the making of this video. If you want to remove a video please contact me : I recommend you my channel Blues & Rock Ilija Capko