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| Wolfgang's Vault Releases the List of World's Most Rocking Women Wolfgang's Vault has released the list of world's most rocking women, with the announcement of newly available concert downloads from Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt. Wolfgang's Vault celebrates 12 of the most influential women in rock music history with this week's releases of shows by Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt. The list of most influential female rockers of all time celebrates Patti Smith, Janis Joplin, Debora Iyall, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Bonnie Raitt, Deborah Harry, Tina Turner, Kristin Hersh, Chrissie Hynde, Grace Slick and Aretha Franklin. With a combination of strength, artistry, and uncommon grace, these women have each been trailblazers in the music industry, and uncompromising role models for individuality. Their influence has already seen decades of inspiring fellow musicians and music fans worldwide. Wolfgang's Vault proudly acknowledges their extraordinary accomplishments, their talent and determination, their larger-than-life legacies, and the music they have created. Aretha Franklin demands R-E-S-P-E-C-T and she gets it. A giant in soul music, she drives her songs with the angst, love and anger of womanly strength and conviction. The Queen of Soul was discovered by John Hammond in the early 60's and signed to a record label and promoted her as a jazz singer. It was only later that the magnitude of her charisma was unleashed in the worlds of soul, rock, R&B, and it was here that she created hit after hit, among them "Chain of Fools", "You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)" and her signature tune, Otis Redding's "Respect." Her 1971 concert from the Fillmore East now available at Wolfgang's Vault shows an unstoppably powerful woman in all her glory. Over her almost 40-year-long career, Bonnie Raitt has solidified herself as one of the finest blues singers and guitar players of all time. She has also made her name as a songwriter, an activist, and a humanitarian. Bonnie Raitt was born outside of Los Angeles on November 8, 1949 with some pretty good musical genes. Her father, John Raitt, was a Broadway star and her mother, Marjorie Haydock, was a classical pianist. She began playing guitar as a youngster, mostly playing blues style guitar, and was discovered performing in New York in 1970 by a Newsweek reporter. Her 1973 concert at the Lenox Inn, now available in Wolfgang's Vault has Raitt at the age of 23 showing her prowess as a guitar pro with a passion for the blues. This month marks 39 years since the death of a very young Janis Joplin - the very young, very talented, very passionate, and very accomplished woman whose legacy far outlasted her lifetime. Her 1969 show at the Fillmore East in Wolfgang's Vault was recorded during Janis Joplin's transitional period, when she was trying to find her own artistic space amid a sea of adulation, controversy, and confusion. She had abandoned her band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and was in rehearsals with her new group, the Kozmic Blues Band on an almost non-stop trek performing around the globe until June, 1969. At the Fillmore East in New York, audiences were blown away by the force of Joplin's onstage charisma, and her renditions of her biggest hits from Big Brother including "Summertime, " "Piece Of My Heart, " and "Ball & Chain." There are many more not-to-be-missed women in the 2950 concerts currently streamed free on Wolfgang's Vault, many more to be added with the upcoming November 3rd "Cracking The Vault Day". Cheers to all of them, and the many more women the world over whose music touches and inspires us all. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Jazz News :: home page |