“Leak in this Old Building”
Eddie Ruth Bradford
From the CD Reflections (street date: July 14, 2009)
Eddie Ruth Bradford
From the CD Reflections (street date: July 14, 2009)
Clarksdale, Mississippi is a great address for a blues singer and apparently for a traditional gospel singer, too, because that’s where Eddie Ruth Bradford lives. The Stellar-nominated Bradford, with her deep, expressive alto, is a Gospel Singer (capitalization intentional) well educated in the old-school ways of church wrecking.
It makes sense, then, that Bradford’s third CD, Reflections, contains a hymnbook full of traditional fare. “Leak in this Old Building,” Bradford’s current radio single from the new album, is a neo-traditional arrangement of an old standard. The beat lumbers forward with a heavy blues strut as the background vocalists harmonize like an early seventies quartet in answer to Bradford’s calls.
The track fades just as Bradford really warms up, so I wish it would have continued for much longer. I suspect it is extended in live performance, and I’ll bet that’s phenomenal to behold.
This sister can sang! I was at a meeting at church and I overheard one member speaking to another about this girl form Clarksdale. My uncle is from Clarksdale, MS. I went home and goggled her name. I’m trying to locate her new cd ‘Reflections’.