At Last!

这是位骨灰级的女蓝调大师，这张专辑融合了流行、蓝调和爵士乐的风格，较同时期的蓝调歌手而言更为“主流”一些，这张专辑中的"Stormy Weather"， "I Just Want to Make Love to You"等歌曲都是打榜的热门歌曲，而她也被认为开创了一种被称为“Crossover diva”的独特演唱风格。 这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第116位。 After spending a few years in limbo after scoring her first R&B hits "Dance With Me, Henry" and "Good Rocking Daddy," Etta James returned to the spotlight in 1960 with her first Chess release, At Last. James made both the R&B and pop charts with the album's title cut, "All I Could Do Was Cry," and "Trust in Me." What makes At Last a great album is not only the solid hits it contains, but also the strong variety of material throughout. James expertly handles jazz standards like "Stormy Weather" and "A Sunday Kind of Love," as well as Willie Dixon's blues classic "I Just Want to Make Love to You." James demonstrates her keen facility on the title track in particular, as she easily moves from powerful blues shouting to more subtle, airy phrasing; her Ruth Brown-inspired, bad-girl growl only adds to the intensity. James would go on to even greater success with later hits like "Tell Mama," but on At Last one hears the singer at her peak in a swinging and varied program of blues, R&B, and jazz standards.