Michelle Malone w/ Joshua Singleton

Armed with a bottleneck slide, blues harmonica, and her signature gut-wrenching vocals, Moanin' Michelle Malone is having so much fun these days that she can’t help but shake her sugarfoot.

Malone was born in the dirty south and grew up listening to her mother sing in the church choir every Sunday. When it came time to craft her own sound, she took those religious roots, blended in enough rock and soul to keep the devil satisfied, and came up with her 9th studio CD, 'Sugarfoot'. It's a high-spirited stripped down blend of rootsy acoustic slide, gritty electric blues and explosive vocals - rock with just enough blues edge to get the medicine down. 'Sugarfoot' sounds like the lost recordings of Bonnie Raitt and the Rolling Stones meeting up in Susan Tedeschi's garage for a late night jam session. And as is usually the case with Malone, the disc is an experience best enjoyed at high volume.

In keeping with her rough and tumble attitude, Malone averages over 200 days a year on the road, sharing stages and tours with artists from ZZ Top to Joan Jett, the Indigo Girls and Johnny Winter. Though her previous releases have earned her critical acclaim on many "Best Of" lists, she is known for her live set, where she can make the biggest venues seem as cozy as a camp fire, and an intimate venue feel like the center of the universe. 'Sugarfoot' comes as close to capturing her raw spontaneity and grand, dirty, low-down power as anything to date.

Why Michelle Malone hasn’t knocked the likes of Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt off of their roots-rock and blues pedestals blows the mind. Malone’s authentic interpretation of good old Southern rock and hard-edge blues should have her rubbing shoulders with the Allman Brothers and Buddy Guys of the world. Malone’s hand-to-mouth, pounding touring might limit her recording schedule, but her last couple of studio releases, Sugarfoot and Stompin’ Ground, are rousing and relentless toe-tapping beauties deserving of a boatload of attention. - GEMELLI (The Village Voice, NY)

Joshua Singleton

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