I’m a little late in this tribute, but a family death, one beloved and too young, like Etta, derailed me, even as we honored this special man today at Algiers United Methodist Church, the church of my ...

“A lot of people think the blues is depressing, but that’s not the blues I’m singing. When I’m singing blues, I’m singing life,” Etta James once told the Los Angeles Times of her Etta James songs, ...

How did you find him or he find you? JAMES: Well, kind of, yeah, I think it was kind of a little bit of both, really, but he really found me because I - at that time, my mother - I had ran away from ...