Janiva Magness is a rare modern day blues artist who has actually lived the blues. She lost both parents in her teens and was shuttled through a number of foster homes. She gave up a child as a teenager and had a long-term marriage end. Like many blues artists, she is a survivor and has been able to channel her experiences, both good and bad, into her music.<\/p>\n
Now over 30 years into her career, she has released her 10th album titled Original. <\/em>While this release may fly under the radar of many music fans, for blues aficionados, it is an event to celebrate. She has received 22 Blues Music Nominations, been honored as Female Blues Artist Of The Year three times, and received the coveted B.B. King Blues Entertainer Of The Year Award in 2012.<\/p>\n Magness\u2019 new release not only finds her incorporating some rock and soul into her music but also serves as her coming out party as a songwriter. She has always been an apprehensive composer, but here, she steps forward and contributes seven original tunes, which reflect her journeys\u00a0through life. The passion she brings to her own creations explores the very\u00a0heart of the blues.<\/p>\n She is a vocalist with excellent tone and command of her instrument. She can soar and purr as needed but is always able to present her stories with authority. Her basic backing band consists of guitarist Zach Zunis, keyboardist Jim Alfredson, bassist Gary Davenport, and drummer Matt Tecu.<\/p>\n She is an artist who continues to evolve. Her sound is fuller and she uses creative rhythms and sounds to enhance her music. \u201cWhen You Were My King\u201d features her pure voice, some guitar reverb, plus acoustic and electric interplay. The confessional \u201cLet Me Breathe\u201d introduces the album with a blues guitar enhanced\u00a0by a glockenspiel. From the simple to the complicated, songs such as \u201cI Need A Man,\u201d \u201cMountain,\u201d \u201cBadass,\u201d \u201cThe Hard Way,\u201d and \u201cStanding\u201d are not only a trip through the American blues but a journey through her mind and psyche as well.<\/p>\n Janiva Magness continues to fuse herself with her music. Original <\/em>is another excellent leap into the world of the American blues by an artist who is still standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":31994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9419],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-43729","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-janiva-magness","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43729"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43729"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}