Soulful Dress
Studio album by
Marcia Ball
Released1984 (1984)
GenreBlues
LabelRounder[1]
ProducerDenny Bruce
Marcia Ball chronology
Circuit Queen
(1978)		 Soulful Dress
(1984)		 Hot Tamale Baby
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]
The Grove Press Guide to the Blues on CD[4]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

Soulful Dress is a blues album by Marcia Ball.[7][8] It is Ball's second solo album.[9] Soulful Dress was released in 1984 through Rounder Records.[10] Stevie Ray Vaughan played the first guitar solo on "Soulful Dress".

Critical reception

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."[6] Nashville Scene called the album "one of the decade’s most nuanced explorations of New Orleans-style R&B."[11]

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

  • Piano, Vocals – Marcia Ball
  • Bass – Don Bennett
  • Drums – Wes Starr
  • Guitar – Kenny Ray, Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Horns – The Mighty Big Horns (Keith Winking, Kent Winking, Pat Mackrell)
  • Organ – Nick Connolly
  • Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Mark Kazanoff

References

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