Wednesday Night Music: Boss Of The Blues

In 2009, Dave Alvin recorded with an all-female quintet featuring Cindy Cashdollar, Nina Gerber, Laurie Lewis, Sarah Brown, and Laurie Pankratz. The resulting album Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women is one of my favorite Alvin CDs.

Honorary New Orleanian Marcia Ball sat in on piano on Boss of the Blues, which is one reason I’m posting it tonight. The other is that it flat-out rocks:

Here’s some extra tasty lagniappe, which also features la belle Marcia: