Heather Crosse Groovin' At The Crosse Roads

(2015/Ruf Records) 11 tracks. Her solo debut Groovin' at the Crosse Roads shows what she's really about. It's all blues - with a soul twist. 'I grew up singing Motown and a couple of my blues mentors did a lot of 70s soul. So that tends to come out in the songs that I'm writing,' explains Crosse, who co-wrote five of the album's eleven tracks while also paying tribute to heroes such as Etta James and Big Mama Thornton. It's the kind of mix she relies on to get Mississippi crowds dancing on a Saturday night.