Denise LaSalle
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Biography
[Edit]Unlike so many other blues vocalists who just reinterpret material given to them by songwriters, Denise LaSalle is a seriously talented songwriter. Although her soul blues style has strong urban contemporary overtones at times, it's best to think of LaSalle as a modern-day Bessie Smith, because that's really what she is. She writes funny songs full of sassy attitude and it's an attitude she carries with her on-stage. Off-stage, LaSalle accommodates all autograph seekers and gladly obliges journalists and radio disc jockeys.
The Jackson, TN-based LaSalle was raised in Belzoni, MS, (also home to Joe Willie "PineTop" Perkins some years earlier) but she got started singing in local churches around Leflore County. She was born July 16, 1939, as Denise Craig. Growing up, she listened to the Grand Ole Opry radio broadcasts and then in Belzoni, lived across the street from a juke joint. LaSalle's early influences, from the jukeboxes around Belzoni and over the radio, included Ruth Brown, Dinah Washington, and LaVern Baker. LaSalle moved north to Chicago when she was in her early twenties and would attend shows at the Regal Theatre, always returning home to write songs. She got to know blues musicians and began giving her songs to them, until one day a Chess Records executive stopped by at Mixer's Lounge, where LaSalle was working as a bar maid. He listened to one of her songs and took it down to Chess Records, and the company later signed her as a vocalist, but never recorded her. Two years later, LaSalle recorded and produced her own record with the help of Billy "The Kid" Emerson, the Chess executive who'd originally shown an interest in her. After the record made some waves on local radio, Chess stepped in and purchased the master and took it to Europe. Meanwhile, LaSalle continued writing songs and sitting in with blues musicians around the Chicago clubs.
LaSalle's first big hit came about in 1971 when her "Trapped By a Thing Called Love" broke on the radio in Chicago and then Detroit. That record was for the Westbound label and then she signed with ABC Records in 1975, cutting three albums in three years until the label was sold to MCA. After MCA dropped her because of the label's "difficulty in promoting black acts" at that time, she continued performing as much as she could in Chicago and Memphis. In 1980, a Malaco executive called to ask her to write a song for Z.Z. Hill. A positive relationship with the company was quickly developed, which resulted in LaSalle recording 11 discs for the label, including Lady in the Street, (1983), Right Place, Right Time, (1984), Love Talkin', (1985), Hittin' Where It Hurts, (1989), Still Trapped, (1990), Still Bad, (1994), and Smokin' in Bed (1997). While her Malaco sides are probably her most important recordings, other than the original of her early-'70s hit "Trapped," she still releases excellent gospel crossover material, including This Real Woman (2000) and There's No Separation (2001) on Ordena Records and Little Bit Naughty (2008) on Shout. ~ Richard Skelly & Al Campbell, Rovi
Title: I Get What I Want: The Best Of The ABC / MCA Years
Artist: Denise LaSalle
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: On the Loose / Trapped By a Thing Called Love
Artist: Denise LaSalle
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Collections
Title: Chess Chartbusters, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: 18 Seventies Soul Sensations
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: The Girl Can Sing: 70's
Title: Music of Mississippi
Title: Beach Music Party
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Soul Blues Hits, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Best Of Southern Soul Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Dynasty
Genre: Blues
Title: Chess Pieces Volume 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Juke Joint Saturday Night, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Sex-Rated Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Mix, Vol. 10: Super Soul Music
Genre: Blues
Title: On the Chitlin Circuit
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Beach Music Party, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: SeX-Rated Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Simply Soul
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Blues Mix vol. 2: Old School Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Ecko Records Sampler 2009
Genre: Blues
Title: Southern Soul Hits 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Sassy Soul Divas
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Soul Blues Queens
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Mix, Vol. 6: Super Southern Soul
Genre: Blues
Title: On The Chitlin' Circuit, vol. 2: Memphis Soul Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Soul Blues Hits, Vol. 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Southern Soul Party, vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues For Grownups
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Solid Soul Volume 5
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Blues from the Montreux Jazz Festival
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues In the Bedroom
Genre: Blues
Title: Soul Bird - 20 Sensational Sexy Soul Singers
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Southern Soul Duets
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: The 80'S Collection CD 7
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Blues Women Anthology 3 (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Women Anthology 5 (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Top Of The Pops 1971 CD5
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Pop
Title: 100 Hits 80'S Rewind (CD4)
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Chess Divas
Genre: Jazz
Title: A - Z Of The 80s (CD06)
Title: 80's Night Ultimate DJ Collection (CD8)
Genre: Rock
Title: Top 200 Christmas Songs Of All Time (CD2)
Genre: New Age, Jazz, Rock, Club/Dance, Country, Pop, Pop Rock, Traditional Pop Music, Theatre/Soundtrack, Celtic
Title: 80S COLLECTION DJMIXCHILE (CD12)
Genre: Rock, DJ/Remixes, Pop
Title: Sweet Soul Music 1972
Genre: Soul
Title: Electric Blues 2005 Part 4 - 1970-2005 (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Sweet Soul Music-Scorching Classics From 1971
Genre: Jazz
Title: Billboard Charts Top 1000 Hits 1970-1979 (CD2: 1971)
Genre: Industrial, Blues, Jazz, Rock, Gothic Rock, Grunge, Rock & Roll, Punk, Metal, Reggae, World Music, Country, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic, Indie, Hardcore, Symphonic
Title: Sweet Soul Music 1971
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: 120 Hits - Greatest Hits Soul And R&B (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Disco, Funk, Psychedelic
Title: Chess Soul - A Decade Of Chicago's Finest (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: From The Soul, Vol. 2 (A DJ Shao Soul Funk Selection)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Funk
Title: Living The Blues ~ Ladies Sing The Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: 50 Greatest Soul
Title: Living The Blues: The 80s Blues Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: If Loving You Is Wrong
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Deep South Blues Hits
Genre: Blues
Title: Grandes Temazos: Blues
Genre: Blues