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Let Me Play with Your Poodle | 
 enlarge | Artist: Marcia Ball
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 139345
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 613151
UPC: 011661315129
EAN: 0011661315129
ASIN: B000000370
Release Date: June 24, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Let Me Play with Your Poodle - Marcia Ball, Whittaker, Hudson | | • | Why Women Cry - Marcia Ball, Ball, Marcia | | • | Crawfishin' - Marcia Ball, Garlow, Clarence | | • | How Big a Fool - Marcia Ball, Speeks | | • | The Right Tool for the Job - Marcia Ball, Ball, Marcia | | • | I'm Just a Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin') - Marcia Ball, Jackson, G. | | • | I Still Love You - Marcia Ball, Campbell, E. | | • | Can't Trust My Heart - Marcia Ball, McClinton, Delbert | | • | The Story of My Life - Marcia Ball, Ball, Marcia | | • | Something I Can't Do - Marcia Ball, Duke, Mike | | • | For the Love of a Man - Marcia Ball, Ball, Marcia | | • | American Dream - Marcia Ball, Ball, Marcia | | • | Louisiana 1927 - Marcia Ball, Newman, Randy |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Long, tall Marcia Ball kicks off her new album with the title track, "Let Me Play with Your Poodle," a rollicking, double-entendre blues number originated by Tampa Red. In Ball's version, she reinforces the salacious lyrics with a punchy horn section, her own second-line New Orleans piano solo and her own giddy vocal. And Ball doesn't need to dip into blues history for a bawdy song; she proves she can write her own on "The Right Tool for the Job." The rest of the album isn't quite so blunt, but whether she's admitting she "Can't Trust My Heart" or declaring there's "Something I Can't Do," Ball locks her voice and piano parts so firmly into the syncopated Gulf Coast rhythms that there always seems to be a party in full swing on this recording. The album is dominated by the sights and sounds of Ball's native Louisiana, from the culinary delights of Clarence Garlow's "Crawfishin'" to the ironic history of Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927." Ball is now based in Austin, however, and she is backed by some of the finest blues musicians in Texas, including Clarence Hollimon, who plays guitar on "I'm Just a Prisoner," and Doyle Bramhall, who sings the duet vocal on "How Big a Fool." Ball doesn't possess the strongest voice in the blues world, but few revivalists can match her instinctive grasp of rhythmic phrasing. --Geoffrey Himes
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| Customer Reviews:
NEAR PERFECT April 10, 2005
Diamond Dave (Chicago, Home of the Blues)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Marcia delivers piano as sizzling uptempo or in yearning ballad forms and comes out sounding fab either way. The title track and Crawfishin' are instant classics, and all her slower moments are sweet and tender.
Not a duff track in the batch. The song blend of originals and covers is well focused, and lends creedance to the great history of music and life on the Bayou (Delbert McClinton, Randy Newman).
I've listended to a lot of blues influenced ivory ticklers on CD, and I've seen many a player hit the 88 keys live and in person, but Marcia delivers the right stuff from start to finish.
Her voice is warm and welcoming. Session heavyweight Doyle Bramhall (Sr.), joins in to add spice to the party in session.
Next time the neighbors are coming over for a BBQ, slip into something comfortable and try on a little Marcia Ball..this Poodle is worth picking up.
great album!!! June 24, 2001
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Enough said. Marcia knows her way around the piano. Well-written songs and a tight, supportive band bring out the best of this great musician.
Let me play with your poodle February 3, 2001
Marcia is a great New Orleans blues singer. She has a wonderful stage presence and should get more national recognition.
 party music from the Bayou June 26, 2000
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I've been following Marcia off and on for the last 10 years...always thought of her as a fun artist with a nice voice and enough piano to make her credible.Then I heard this album...she cranks out a bunch of blistering pounding piano solos that impressed this old hard heart. Go get this one...by far the best of her albums
Make it talk girl!!! April 27, 1999
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This was a chance purchase by my Father who shares my love of blues. I feel like I have been let into a new field of boogie~woogie, key dancin...world. This lady is fantastic, I would give my right left toe to be able to do what she does to those ivorys. Play with Your Poodle is a piece of mastery that would bring anyone out of the deepest funk they have ever been in. I thought for a minute this lady knew me in 'can't trust my heart'... Wonderful mix of boogie and soulful heart breakers... I will be working my through the rest of these! If you love piano music of this kind as I do, this is a must have..the whole CD is great....
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