KELLY’S LOT - CAN’T TAKE MY SOUL 17 Mei

KELLY’S LOT - CAN’T TAKE MY SOUL
LABEL: SELF
RELEASE DATE: MAY 17, 2019
BlindRaccoon
Los Angeles-based Kelly’s Lot celebrates 25 years of delivering West Coast Soul with a Texas
Heart, an eclectic mix of blues, roots, rock & Americana with their 14th album, “Can’t Take My
Soul,” containing 12 original compositions that highlights Kelly Zirbes’ smokin’ hot alto.

The mix
of original songs written by Kelly and her longtime partner in crime, guitarist Perry Robertson,
speaks truth to the issues of the day, from our political climate and world struggles to tender
matters of the heart, real-life inspiration and tragedy.
Kelly Z opens the album namechecking all her heroes from Muddy to Koko, and Buddy to Etta, on
the rockin’ number ‘All I Ever Want Is The Blues.’ She then gets right to the point urging us all to
“Don’t Give Up” on the political rebuke ‘All Hope Ain’t Lost.’ The gently swinging blues ‘Alyssa’
was inspired by a young woman born with a terminal illness, who defied the odds and lived to be
23 years old and became a medical pioneer as one of the world’s first to receive gene therapy for
Canavan Disease. This song will live on as a loving tribute to her inner streng


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Eddie Baytos joins the crew on accordion and washboard for the Cajun dance party anthem ‘Woe
Is Me,’ adding authentic Louisiana spice to the rue. The testament of love, ‘Safe And Warm,’ is
delivered on a soft bed of acoustic underpinnings deftly delivered by this veteran band. The
notorious French bluesman Jean-François Thomas (recorded by Martial Semonsut at Studio La
Vallée in the Auvergne region of France) joins Kelly for a scalding duet ‘Rise Up (Leve-Toi)’
sparing with her in French and English about the fire burning deep inside forbidden love and the
Revolution. Frank Hinojosa adds some greasy blues harp to the slinky R&B groove of ‘Broke
Myself.’ The acoustic driven ballad, ‘Let It Breathe,’ has that distinct bittersweet and dusty Laurel
Canyon feel only Southern California musicians know how to deliver.
Kelly opens a vein and exposes all her depth on the dynamic call for redemption and selfpreservation called ‘Dirt,’ a simple title for an expansive and complicated song. She then goes
back to her folk-singer roots on the sweet optimistic hymn ‘Little Bit Of This,’ before busting out
the rabble-rousing surf rock ‘Can’t Take My Soul.’ We are transported to a sidewalk café in Paris
for the final track of the album ‘Mon Ami.’ The lovely encore reveals a softer side of Kelly Z as
she serenades us eloquently in French and then translates the images of love and devotion in
English with graceful ease.
“Can’t Take My Soul” fully demonstrates the skills and variety in the repertoire Kelly’s Lot have
developed over two and half decades performing as an acoustic duo, trio, an electric 5 to 8-piece
that are now a mainstay on the Southern California music scene.
Rick

Publicist: Betsie Brown, Blind Raccoon, betsie@blindraccoon.com,