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Hattie sings the blues sizzling with a pinch of Patsy Cline and Norah Jones.
"Something Real" is a I've-had-enough song inspired by one of Hattie's favorite artists, Reverend Al Green. "Love Leave Me" sits nicely on the edge of its honky-tonk piano bed with Hattie sick of love hangin' around after her lover is long gone. "Go It Alone" is Hattie's heart smashed to bits and stomped on.
"I Don't Belong To You" is Hattie's I'm-done-I'm-walkin' song inspired by Etta James. "You Save Me" is making fans weak in the knees with Hattie's softer side shining in the sultry vocal conversation she's having talking to herself. It's Norah Jones meets Rickie Lee Jones. Check it out. You'll probably agree, it's sexay! And as much as Hattie loves to sing sweet soul and jazzy blues, she's gonna sashay around now and then on the sawdust singin' Lyle Lovett's "Cowboy Man" and "Why I Don't Know."
Red Bird Tattoo wraps up with the smooth and melancholy "My Birthday" intimate party for two and a bonus track--Hattie's 1940s to 1920s ragtime piano solo "Miss Hattie Moran's Augusta Georgia Rag" complete with scratchy 78 rpm record sound dancing out of a 1940s radio. You're gonna want this CD in your car to keep you company when you're stuck in traffic.
The Red Bird Tattoo Band is lead by the one and only Johnny Neel, soul man, harp man and keyboard player formerly of the Allman Brothers. Johnny Neel is a Grammy-nominated artist and songwriter who cut his first single at age 12. Arranging all the songs on Red Bird Tattoo, Johnny is an accomplished songwriter whose tunes have been recorded by the Allman Brothers, Joe Louis Walker, John Mayall, Irma Thomas, Ann Peebles, Marie Osmond, the Oak Ridge Boys and Travis Tritt. Taking turns on lead guitar are some of Nashville's finest: Doug Jones on "I Don't Belong To You", Mark Matejka (Lynryd Skynyrd)
on "Go It Alone", and Hattie's regular guitarist, Brian Davidson, plays on everything else. Dennis Gulley plays bass and Daryl Burgess is on drums.
Mark Matejka of Lynyrd Skynyrd plays guitar lead on instrumental version of Hattie's song Go It Alone.
