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• 10-track CD
• 71:45 Total Running Time
• Item# EVBMF-1001
The Band
Bettie Mae Fikes - Vocals
Robert Watson - Bass
Billy Johnson - Drums
Tony DeWayne - Guitar
Frankie J. - Keyboards (B-3 organ & Piano)
Rob Reason - Keyboards (Brass & Pads)
Additional in-studio guitars by Robert Watson
Produced by Carolyn Wing Greenlee & Dan Worley
Musical Director Robert Watson
Engineered and Mixed by Dan Worley
Assistant Engineer Peter Wilson
Gear rental and advisor Tony DeWayne
Recorded live at Ancient Lake Gardens, Kelseyville, CA
Mixed at Earthen Vessel Productions, Kelseyville, CA
Package Design and photos by Nathan DeHart
Bettie Mae Fikes
Live at Ancient Lake Gardens
How Blue Can You Get?
I grew up with these songs as a little girl. My mother was a gospel singer and my father was a gigolo. My momma gave me the gospel and my daddy gave me the blues. --Bettie Mae Fikes
If you’ve ever been to a Bettie Mae Fikes concert, you know why we wanted to record her live--with a great band pulsing behind her and the audience giving back to her as she pours out the raw electricity of blues powered by a voice that hides nothing.
On August 26, 2009, Bettie Mae stepped onto the small stage in a barn at Ancient Lake Gardens in Lake County, California, with five of her favorite musicians and the house packed with enthusiastic fans. The result was the recording that Bettie Mae says finally captures her true voice.
On How Blue Can You Get? Bettie Mae Fikes delivers pure, vivid, gutsy, life-lived, authentic blues with authority and courage. Her heart-felt, selfless style reaches deep into the human experience and embraces the listener, letting them know they're not alone. There are lessons to be learned here--lessons from a well-lived, hard-fought and closely examined life. A life of trials and triumphs, with Jesus the center of it all.
This is the blues... done Bettie Mae's way.
