This CD features her blues-shouting roots recording with Johnny Otis for Savoy, powerful performances written and produced by the emergent Leiber & Stoller in Los Angeles, then rocking blues from Kansas City and New York, the latter featuring ace guitarist Mickey Baker, and rock n roll sides from 1957 featuring drummer Panama Francis - Linda in vibrant vocal form on both shouters and ballads.

Influenced by Bessie Smith, she won awards for her performances in Broadway musicals in the 1970s, and toured the USA and Europe with blues musical revues in the 1980s, still performing and recording into the new century. In turn she had provided along the way an influence on the developing Aretha Franklin. Shout Records is pleased to present an anthology of Linda s music from the blues-shouting years of the 1950 s, very rare tracks now in CD format for the first time.

Doggin Blues / Living And Loving You / Warning Blues / I Ll Ask My Heart / Walkin And Talkin Blues / Sad And Lonely / Me And Dirty Blues / Baby Please Come Home / Is This Goodbye / Get Off My Wagon / Three Time Loser / Tears Of Joy / Come Back Baby / I’mGoing To Cry Right Out Of My Mind / Mama Needs Your Lovin Baby / Danny Boy / My Loving Baby / I Can’t / Shiver & Shake / Rock & Roll Blues