At Last - The Best Of

Amazon.co.uk Review

This is Etta James's first full-length album, recorded for Chess Records' Argo subsidiary in 1960. It taps all aspects of her then-blossoming talent. There's the crooning rock ballad "My Dearest Darling" and the elegantly symphonic "Sunday Kind of Love". Her classic, broken-hearted "All I Could Do Was Cry" follows the sweet title track and the bawdy blues stomper "I Just Want to Make Love to You". And there's a version of Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather", which Lena Horne made famous. James's fine way with such a wide embrace of material wouldn't again be this well displayed on a single album until she was united with producer Jerry Wexler for 1977's Deep in the Night. --Ted Drozdowski

• Artist: Etta James
• Binding: Audio CD
• Format: CD
• Label: CMG
• Manufacturer: CMG
• Number Of Discs: 1
• Package Quantity: 1
• Product Group: Music
• Publisher: CMG
• Release Date: 2011-02-07
• SKU: NB004I2EWL4
• Studio: CMG

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