Artist: Ana Popovic
Genre(s):
Blues
Other
Discography:
Comfort To The Soul
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Hush!
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
If you're non a vapors purist, you'll love the perfervid, passionate playing and singing of Yugoslavian blues-rock guitar player, vocalist, and songwriter Ana Popovic. Thanks to her father, the Belgrade-raised Popovic was introduced to the vapours at an early age, through his varied phonograph recording accumulation and throng sessions hosted at the Popovic abode. Born on May 13, 1976, Popovic took up guitar when she was a stripling and formed her low gear band, Hush, in 1995. Within a year, with the burst of Communism in Eastern Europe, she was playing vapors festivals in Greece and Hungary and on the job as an opening act for American vapours edgar Lee Masters, including Junior Wells.
Popovic recorded her debut album with Hush in 1999, when she as well affected to the Netherlands to subject field jazz guitar and mankind and pop music at the Conservatory of Music. She had the chance to take care blues guitarist Bernard Allison at a club in Germany. He asked her to come onstage and jam at the end of the show. While Allison invited Popovic to join him on a spell, she had to make back to the Jazz Academy in Holland. Allison asked for a copy of Popovic's record with Hush, and he sent it on to executives at Ruf Records in Germany, wHO were impressed with Popovic's powerful guitar playacting and telling. Ruf contacted her to be percentage of their Jimi Hendrix tribute compiling, and then signed her to a recording sell of her possess.
Various months after this, she was on her path to Memphis to record Hush! The album was well standard by vapors wireless programmers and the non-blues purist segments of the American, European, and Canadian vapours fete circuits. In the spring of 2001, she performed at the Memphis in May Festival alongside Bob Dylan, the Black Crowes, and Ike Turner. Within five age of going away Yugoslavia, Popovic, at present in her late twenties, had the probability to do at many of the major European vapours festivals, including Peer, Bishopstock, and Notodden. Along the room she's sabbatum in with the likes of Allison, Michael Hill, and Kenny Neal.
Popovic has two albums out on the New Jersey-based Ruf Records America label, Hush!, released in 2000, and Comfort to the Soul, her 2003 button. Jim Gaines and David Z., wHO have worked with early blues-rockers, including Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana, and Jonny Lang, had roles in recording and admixture both albums. Five of Popovic's sparkling originals polish on Comfort to the Soul, including her homage to the tragic life-time of jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius, divine by a book she read, as well as the album's opening track, "Don't Bear Down on Me (I'm Here to Steal the Show)." She too provides inspired, imaginative covers of Howlin' Wolf's "Seance on Top of the World" and Steely Dan's "Night by Night."
Popovic guests on Hill's 2003 two-disc Galvanic Storyland live album. In 2003, Popovic was nominative for a W.C. Handy Blues Award for Best New Artist of the Year and was the commencement European creative person to do at the Handy Awards. Two years later, Popovic released her commencement alive endeavour, Ana! Live in Amsterdam.
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