Ana Popovic - Hush!

Born in Belgrade and connected to blues music by her father's record collection Ana Popovic took up the guitar when she was a teenager. A couple of years later she released this solo album and also moved to the Netherlands to study jazz guitar and world and pop music. Now that's my kind of girl!
But wait, this album is recorded in Memphis, how did that happen? Well, she already recorded an album with Hush (the band's name). And she happened to see Bernard Allison play at a club in Germany. He asked her to join on stage after to jam and was so impressed he asked her on tour. Which she could not because she had to go back to Amsterdam to study.

But Allison went on with it and asked for a copy of the record with the band and send it on to Ruf Records in Germany. Lucky girl!
But of course very talented.
Now there are a lot of blues purists out there, that won't even think of playing this album. Okay, it's a little blues, a fair part blues-rock, soul-blues and swamp rock even. But that is the same discussion as playing Mozart to the notes or bring your own spirit into it. Personally I have nothing against purists (except for those who state that if it is not from the USA it can't be blues) but to me that would be blues as a study object. It is a good thing to preserve culture and music is part of that, but music is alive, not static, so there should be both and you should love them both.

That said, just listen:

Track		Artist		Song		BPM
1		Ana Popovic		Love Fever		100
2		Ana Popovic		Mended		109
3		Ana Popovic		Hometown		105
4		Ana Popovic		I Won't Let You Down		122
5		Ana Popovic		The Hustle Is On		150
6		Ana Popovic		Downtown		103
7		Ana Popovic		How Lonely Can a Woman Get		89
8		Ana Popovic		Walk Away		145
9		Ana Popovic		Girl of Many Words		94
10		Ana Popovic		Minute 'Till Dawn		133
11		Ana Popovic		Bring Your Fine Self Home		115
12		Ana Popovic		How the Mighty Have Fallen		115