Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion
Album: Exposed
Label: 33 Records
Tracks: 13
Website: http://www.bluecommotion.com

If you like your blues to be sultry and jazzed up, then this album should appeal.

Zoe has a fine voice and she shows her talents can stretch from a slow-burner to an all -out rocker.

This is the band's third album and features Zoe on main vocals, Rob Koral on guitars, Pete Whittaker on Hammond Organ, Si Genaro on Harmonica and backing vocals and Paul Robinson on drums and percussion.

The organ and harmonica work very well especially on "Let me Sing the Blues" and Zoe sings her heart out. Some of the guitar is over exuberant on occasion but this is a band who have gigged through the years and it shows.

The overall feel is mellow with Zoe's vocals high in the mix, as in "If I Had Wings".

Top marks for the packaging which includes full song lyrics.

John Knighton