What Love Will Do

Product Description "WHAT LOVE WILL DO, co-produced by Magness along with Dave Darling (Brian Setzer, Tom Waits), features 13 powerful songs each imbued with Magness' expressive emotional depth. Magness reaches heights only hinted at in her previous recordings, interpreting new material written especially for her and songs from Little Milton, Tina Turner, Bill Withers, Al Green, Candi Staton, Dorothy Moore, and Marvin Gaye. Her impassioned singing takes each song from deep within her being and projects it out directly into the heart and soul of her audience, making WHAT LOVE WILL DO essential listening for blues, roots, rock and soul music lovers everywhere. " Review Magness never oversings or injects contrived emotion...she simply sings heartbreak, hunger and humor and lets that speak for itself -- No Depression When superb powerhouse R&B singer Janiva Magness delivers a song, you're convinced. She blurs the lines between blues and soul -- Los Angeles Daily News From the Artist One winter's night, Magness hitchhiked across Minneapolis to attend an Otis Rush concert, and for the first time saw a path forward. "Otis played and sang every note with such complete and total desperation. He was fully committed to the story he was singing. Hearing him opened up some other place in me, like letting oxygen into a sealed crypt for the first time." About the Artist The story of award-winning vocalist Janiva Magness' rise to the top of the blues world and beyond is a testament to the redemptive power of music and the human spirit. Possessing a rich, soulful voice and absolute command over her material, Magness is an incredibly gifted performer who can lead her audience through a range of emotions, from the deepest sorrow to overwhelming joy. A survivor of an impossibly rough childhood, Magness' life experience informs her music in a way that is brutally honest, emotionally moving and, above all, spiritually healing. Winner of the 2006 and 2007 Blues Music Awards for Best Contemporary Female Artist Of The Year , Magness has seven solo recordings to her credit and has made guest appearances on CDs by R.L. Burnside and many others. Her presence on stage is legendary, as she performs 200 nights a year at clubs, festivals, and concert halls all over the world. And, in April 2008 she traveled to Iraq and Kuwait co-headlining Bluzapalooza, the first-ever blues concert tour to perform for American troops. And the story continues with her Alligator Records debut, WHAT LOVE WILL DO. WHAT LOVE WILL DO, co-produced by Magness along with Dave Darling, features 13 powerful songs each imbued with Magness' expressive emotional depth. Magness reaches heights only hinted at in her previous recordings, interpreting new material written especially for her and songs from Little Milton, Tina Turner, Bill Withers, Al Green, Candi Staton, Dorothy Moore, and Marvin Gaye. Born in Detroit, Magness was inspired by the blues she heard listening to her father's record collection and by the vibrant music of the city's classic Motown sound. By her teenage years, though, her life was in chaos. She lost both parents to suicide by the time she was 16. She lived on the streets, was in 12 foster homes in two years, became a teenage mother who gave her baby daughter up for adoption, bounced from city to city, and felt hopeless and desperate. By the early 1980s, Magness made her way to Phoenix and befriended Bob Tate, the musical director for the great Sam Cooke. With Tate's mentoring, she formed her first band, Janiva Magness And The Mojomatics, and within the year the influential Phoenix New Times named her group the city's Best Blues Band. She moved to Los Angeles in 1986 and slowly began finding work. She married musician and songwriter Jeff Turmes with whom she recorded her second studio album, It Takes One To Know One , in 1997. After three more independent releases, Janiva signed with Northern Blues, and recorded Bury Him At The Crossroads in 2004 and Do