Ana Popovic - Can You Stand The Heat (2013) VBR

Ana Popovic - Can You Stand The Heat

Year 2013

Tracks
1. Can You Stand the Heat 5:00
2. Can't You See What You're Doing to Me 3:52
3. Mo' Better Love 3:27
4. Object of Obsession 4:14
5. Boys' Night Out 2:27
6. Hot Southern Night (feat. Lucky Peterson) 3:39
7. Every Kind of People 4:10
8. Ana's Shuffle 4:07
9. Blues for Mrs. Pauline / Leave My Boy Alown 7:11
10. Leave Well Enough Alone Aka: High Maintenance You 4:11
11. Tribe 5:48
12. Rain Fall Down 4:07
13. Growing up Too Soon 2:58
14. Mo' Better Love (feat. Tommy Sims) 3:26

Memphis, Tennessee based Ana Popovic returns with a daring studio record. An album full of 'Old School' funk and bluesy grooves, in the vein of Albert King, Albert Collins and War. Can You Stand The Heat was produced by Tony Coleman (drummer - B. B. King), co-produced by Ana and Grammy Award winner Tommy Sims. With Can You Stand The Heat, Ana Popovic follows up her 2011 two time Music Blues Award nominated album Unconditional, which reached #4 on the Billboard Blues Chart, the top 10 of Amazon's Best Blues Albums and the top 15 of Guitar World's top Blues and Roots Rock albums. Ana Popovic was born in Belgrade, formerly Yugoslavia. She quickly picked up her father's impressive blues and soul record collection, grabbed his guitar and went to work at a young age of 15. Since then, Ana has developed into a phenomenal guitarist/vocalist who tirelessly tours around the world playing major blues, jazz and rock festivals. Ana blends smoking electric funk slide guitar, jazzy instrumentals and tight blues groove with soulful feminine vocals. Her incredible stage presence makes her an irresistible force in the music world. I have all her albums and I really like Ana, but I think she comes across much stronger in concert than in studio ... so far. This new album is fantastic, her best so far and, in my opinion, the first to capture the live energy. The sound is perfect, and the invited luminaries include Lucky Peterson. Beyond the amazing guitar work, she has strongly enhanced her voice and the quality of the songs is much more even throughout than in her previous albums. So in a nutshell this is a must buy,