This album is one of the greats. So many great songs:

1. "Anything to Say You're Mine" (Sonny Thompson)–2:33
2. "My Dearest Darling" (Eddie Bocage/Paul Gayten)–3:00
3. "Trust in Me" (Milton Ager/Jean Schwartz/Ned Wever)–2:57
4. "A Sunday Kind of Love" (Barbara Belle/Anita Leonard /Louis Prima/Stan Rhodes)–3:14
5. "Tough Mary" (Lorenzo Manley)–2:24
6. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon)–3:04
7. "At Last" (Mack Gordon/Harry Warren)–2:57
8. "All I Could Do Was Cry"
9. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)–3:05
10. "Girl of My Dreams" (Sonny Clapp)–2:20
11. "My Heart Cries" (Harvey Fuqua/Etta James)–2:36
12. "Spoonful" (Dixon)–2:50 1

Bonus Tracks:
13. "It's a Crying Shame" (James/Fuqua)–2:54 1
14. "If I Can't Have You" (Fuqua/James)–2:50 1

Released in 1961, this is Jame's first LP... What a debut!

She put Willie Dixon songs on her record--always a good idea.

Those definitions of The Blues that tell you how the chords have to change--they all fall apart right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQ9OCQdnCY

Etta and Willie were both built for comfort--they weren't built for speed.

She said later that she didn't really mean this:

Pretty odd. Funny though.

Etta James vs Beyonce:

One of the few things I liked about Cadillac records was Chess heart-attacking after having sold his company.

But Beyonce is, I think, the only real ingredient in that movie. Maybe one day she'll have James' poise as captured on Let's roll and Blues to the bone.