Simply The Best (Live At Slim's, San Francisco, CA / 8-30-1990 & 8-31-1990)

. This is Irma Thomas, the undisputed Soul Queen of New Orleans and a long time favourite of mine. I have featured her before so you can see lots of stuff on her if you scroll my FB back a year or so. But now my You Tube search engine has been coming up with some great new material by her. So much stuff that I've had a difficult job choosing just five tracks. The one I'm leading off with here is a great hit for Tina Turner, but I like Irma's version in a slightly lower key better. Her backing group at Slim's in San Francisco provides a great wall of sound too. Plenty of horns, the way you expect a New Orleans band to be. And even her band intro is great!