DARK ROAD

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CHICAGO BLUES WITH A TWIST Of TEXAS!

CATHY LEMONS--SHE GOT IT! NOW THAT'S THE REAL BLUES! FUNKY! --JOHN LEE HOOKER

This stunning debut com- bines traits of West Coast blues into a vibrant, confident album, one of the best from a female blues vocalist in a long while. --Hal Horowitz Blues Revue

Lemons and Ace have put together a stellar crew of blues performers to help them out on “Dark Road”.... with such a collection of outstanding artists, the resulting music is effortlessly powerful and magnetic. Lemons' vocal character is potently dramatic, yet it pours out like sweet syrup .--Mark A. Cole Big City Blues

"Dark Road" offers straight ahead covers and original tunes played with spare style and taste. Up-tempo blues (“Saying It Plain”) and dance-floor soul grooves (“Let Me Be Good”) are mixed with the occasional ballad (“Dirty Man”) on a play list that shows Lemons to be a skillful and expressive singer in a wide range of styles. If you like your blues sung rather than shouted, this is a disc to check out! --PRA Living Blues

Smoother than Janis, with plenty of range and polish, her torchy pipes attack a melodic line with the ferocity of a femaile warrior! She could sing anything she wanted, and you'd want to hear more. Her distinctive somewhat non-traditional take on the blues genre puts her in a class by herself. --Dallas Faulkner Bay Arts & Music

Vocalist Cathy Lemons squeezes some fine work out of a stellar group of San Francisco Bay Area musicians including guitar stars Rusty Zinn, Tommy Castro, Steve Freund and exuberant pianist David Maxwell. Though those guys sit on top of the local heap in the Bay Area, they can’t outshine Lemons soulful, knowing vocals on "Dark Road." --Bill Kisliuk Blues Access