One of the exciting parts about music is, that it is alive and you never know, when you discover something new, that completely fits your taste. It may be because lyrics are important to you and those lyrics simply hit a nerve for you, it may be that you like the beat and rhythm it throws at you, it may be the atmosphere and feeling it conveys or simply the singer and his/her voice or a combination of parts or all of these aspects. There is a certain excitement that comes with such a discovery and that's what I felt when I first heard the sound of ' Funkabilly ' and Joanna Cotten! I had neither heard of this singer nor of her music before, but I was discovering Funk music at that time and was curious how this could possibly mix with 'hillbilly' music. What the word combination of the album name and title track already hints at, is a mix of various musical styles. Her home page fittingly states: "A sultry slide guitar, the lonely moan of a blu...
My kind of Music.