From BC about this album:
Beth Hart first became known to the world in the very tail end of the 1990s with her massive hit "LA Song" and her in your face "this is me like it or fuck off" take on life kept her and the song in the media long after sales for that album "Screaming For My Supper" slowed to a snails pace. The only problem with this was, LA Song was the only single released off the album that charted, and most assumed that Beth was a one hit wonder deemed for the 1990s related obscurity that acts like OMC, Fastball and The Heights now dwell in.
But this wouldn't do for Beth. She didn't care that the major lables weren't pushing her anymore, she kept working, she turned out afew more albums, and one of them, her newest one to date, from 2003, "Leave The Light On" is truely a jem that should not be passed by. It spans the spectrum from pop, to southern style rock, to jazz and blues, to gospel, to soul, to female vocalist. There is no real way to pin down this album, it shows that Beth has become so much more as she's gotten older and worked more and more on her craft.
Beth has really changed, she started out as what most dismissed as a foul mouthed Tori Amos rip off, but her voice and her style has changed so much that, it seems silly now to have ever compaired the two. Beth's voice is somewhere between Anastacia Newkirk and just about any soul diva you can think of, there is alot of Aretha in her writing she's claimed, I hear more Patte Le Belle, but thats just me I guess. Doesn't really take away from how good this disc is.
I would say this disc is for anyone thats not fully tired of the mainstream, but would like to see what some of those that the mainstream has forgotten are up too these days. Her subject matter jumps all over the place, from love, to drug addictions and drinking to sexual abuse against a child (what the title song "Leave The Light On" is about), self redemption, and afew other things along the way. Its a true masterpiece.
Artist: Beth Hart
Album: Leave The Light On
genre: Female Vocalist
Leave The Light On by Beth Hart
By BC
3 Peaple Showed Us Love:
after a few listens to this album I can say I really can't see why this isn't on a current radio rotation
all over the country. It's by far better than the pop diva whore **expletive** that our kids here all the time.
thank you so much for posting it.
wow i really like this, you were right, thanks for recommending it. love her voice, better than alot of the other female singers out there
can you please re up these file !!
cheers Theo
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