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--Daddy B. Nice


About Sheba Potts-Wright

From an early age, growing up in such blues hubs as Chicago, Detroit, and Greenwood, Mississippi, Sheba Potts-Wright displayed the talents of a musical prodigy. Slow Roll It
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November 29, 2006. Other Woman Has Got Your Man, The - (Remix, remix)
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Should please old fans and gain new.
A deep, organ-sounding keyboard knocks out the first notes of the first track from Sheba Potts-Wright's new album, Let Your Mind Go Back,and it's a welcome and refreshing change from the sometimes wimpy-thin backgrounds heard on too many Ecko records of the last few years. You've Been Sleeping on the Job
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The onetime young diva who made such a chitlin' circuit sensation with "Slow Roll It" and "Lipstick On His Pants" is now a mature woman with a string of CD's spanning a decade, and The Best of Sheba-Potts Wright instantly becomes the definitive Sheba Potts-Wrightalbum. They traveled all over the Mid-south doing opening acts for various artist.

Sheba has, perhaps unconsciously, settled into a formulaic blues format, and each of the last three LP's has offered a rack of bar-blues-based R&B songs, with little willingness to experiment outside a very circumscribed pool of songwriting.

Unfortunately, Sheba Potts-Wright fans will have to be content with another "middlin'" achievement (good, but not great) with Sheba's new release, I'm A Bluesman's Daughter.

"I Can Bagg It Up" had the additional distinction of being yet another case of Potts-Wright making a successful cover of a male artist's (Nathaniel Kimble's) signature song. The horns are real.)

But the song, and especially the title "let the mind go back,"throws the listener a curve.

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"Cruise Control" jumps back to the early years--another take on the "Slow Roll It" melody--as does "Love Fest." Then Sheba moves into one of her finest mid-period hits, "I Can Hear Your Macaroni," which sounds even better in retrospect. She May Be the One You Want
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7. Cruise Control
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You've Been Using Me

**** To those in the know the title of Sheba's new disc ("I'm A Bluesman's Daughter") is a reference to Memphis blues man (and himself a former Ecko artist) Dr. Feelgood Potts, father to the Southern Soul chanteuse Sheba. I Can Bagg It Up
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(See Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "Breaking" Southern Soul Singles (August 08).