Regina Bonelli - Truth Hurts

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2022
Time: 33:39 
Size: 77,1 MB 
Label: True Groove Records
Styles: Blues/Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Truth Hurts - 3:10
 2. The Last Tear - 3:34
 3. It's Not My Cross to Bear (feat. MIchael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton) - 3:36
 4. Mama Raised a Sweet Thing - 4:11
 5. Baby Don't Hurt Me - 3:29
 6. Mr  Big Man - 3:48
 7. Didn't I - 4:20
 8. Killing Floor. Wav (Radio Edit) - 4:03
 9. I Got to Go - 3:23

The first time you hear Regina Bonelli’s “Don’t You Put Your Hands On Me,” Regina’s furious blues anthem for feminist, for people, everywhere, there was no waiting, no analyzing, nothing but a visceral pleasure and a powerful anger. It made Regina an instant star in the blues world; a teaching lesson as well as a punishment for a sex that deserves punishment. The self-penned “Don’t You Put Your Hands On Me” is off her sophomore album Love Letter, which is still in the blues charts four years later. Regina’s third album, Truth Hurts, drops tomorrow. A nine song march into electric guitar blues, funk and soul glittering prize, it re-introduces you to a singer and a songwriter considered by some (by me) to be the best female blues singer since Etta James. The truth here for Regina is not pain, it is the truth of music and the birthing effect of an album of nine songs, three covers including the fabulous take on The Allman Brothers “Not My Cross To Bear” with an on fire Michael “Kidd Funkadelic” Hampton handling Duane Allman’s solo breaks. You might think this will prove to be the best moment on Truth Hurts but it isn’t. Truth Is that the album is one new standard after the other, the Howling Wolf cover of “Killing Floor”, an artist very well known by True Groove Records (Tomas Doncker released an entire album of Wolf songs), is among the best I’ve heard, “Mama Raised a Sweet Thing”, written by Regina, was great on her debut album but it is better here, a strong self-portrait and a pride that is at the heart of everything Bonelli does (the line goes “Mama raised a sweet thing but she didn’t raise a fool”) and the r&b ballad beauty “Baby Don’t Hurt Me”. Truth Hurts yes, though it doesn’t hurt to claim that Regina’s album is bound to be one of the best, if not the best of 2022. A just about flawless achievement/

Truth Hurts