“Sometimes I think I’m going insane,” Nora Jean Wallace sings in the lead track on her new album,
Blues Woman. That is a line and a feeling I believe we’re all in touch with these days. We are all on edge, and have been for nearly four years now. It is exhausting. But Nora Jean Wallace (previously known as Nora Jean Bruso) has some medicine to offer us all, some delicious
blues music, delivered with power,
soul and love. Her new album,
Blues Woman, features mostly original material, some of it written by Nora Jean Wallace, and some of it written by Stanley Banks, who plays keyboards on this release. In addition to Banks, Nora Jean Wallace is backed by Johnny Moeller on guitar, David Earl on guitar, Steve Gomes on bass, Kevin Anker on organ, Steve Guyger on harmonica, and Robb Stupka on drums, with Kim Wilson joining them on one track.