Soulful Dress

Soulful Dress
Studio album by
Marcia Ball
Released1984 (1984)
GenreBlues
LabelRounder
ProducerDenny Bruce
Marcia Ball chronology
Circuit Queen
(1978)		 Soulful Dress
(1984)		 Hot Tamale Baby
(1985)

Soulful Dress is a blues album by Marcia Ball. It is Ball's second solo album. Soulful Dress was released in 1984 through Rounder Records. Stevie Ray Vaughan played the first guitar solo on "Soulful Dress".

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStar
Christgau's Record GuideB+
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStar
The Grove Press Guide to the Blues on CDStarStarStar
The Penguin Guide to Blues RecordingsStarStarHalf star
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStar

The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that "blues ballads and contemporary honky-tonk stylings further recommend an album that is both personally revealing and musically swinging." Nashville Scene called the album "one of the decade’s most nuanced explorations of New Orleans-style R&B."

Track listing

All songs written by Marcia Ball except as noted.

  1. "Soulful Dress" (Maurice McAlister, Terry Vail) – 3:16
  2. "Make Your Move Too Soon" – 3:19
  3. "I'd Rather Go Blind" (Billy Foster, Ellington Jordan) – 5:08
  4. "Jailbird" (Dave Bartholomew) – 2:58
  5. "Eugene" – 3:44
  6. "My Mind's Made Up" – 2:29
  7. "A Thousand Times" – 3:25
  8. "That's Why I Love You" (Moore) – 3:33
  9. "Soul on Fire" (LaVern Baker, Ahmet Ertegün, Jerry Wexler) – 4:46
  10. "Don't Want No Man" – 3:00

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 389.
  2. ↑ "Marcia Ball Biography & History". AllMusic.
  3. ↑ Lichtenstein, Grace; Dankner, Laura (February 22, 1993). Musical Gumbo: The Music of New Orleans. W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393034684.
  4. ↑ "Spangles and High Heels". The Austin Chronicle.
  5. ↑ "Marcia Ball loves Bradenton area and old, weird Florida: interview". Herald Tribune.
  6. ↑ "Soulful Dress Marcia Ball". AllMusic.
  7. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1990). "B". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved August 16, 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.
  8. ↑ Hadley, Frank-John (February 22, 1993). The Grove Press Guide to the Blues on CD. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802133281.
  9. ↑ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
  10. 1 2 The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 33–34.
  11. ↑ "StackPath". Nashville Scene.