She has a voice that is distinctive to her generation. Tracy Nelson's natural talent has always directed her spirit; in fact, it has enabled her to write and search for the deeper songs regardless of market or genre. In her decades of singing, she has consistently decimated audiences. She is a fiery singer of truth and a source of the greatest agony. She is one of the rare female vocalists who has achieved success in both the blues and country music genres. She has shared the stage alongside artists like Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson, Marcia Ball and Irma Thomas. Both her country and blues albums have received Grammy® nominations.
"Tracy Nelson demonstrates that the human voice is the most powerful instrument in creation," claimed John Swenson in a Rolling Stone article. With Victim of the Blues, her 26th album in just over 50 years (on Delta Groove Music), she has fully circled back to the original music from South Side Chicago that captured the attention of her youthful mind in the middle of the 1960s.
A little more than a month after the horrific fire that destroyed the over 100-year-old farmhouse Nelson occupied with her longtime companion Mike Dysinger, Nelson was profiled on NPR's "Weekend Edition". She had just started to recover from losing her house and most of her personal possessions. The studio was selected when the firemen told them they could spare one room. Victim of the Blues is the record that somehow made it through the fire. And for that reason, the Burns, Tennessee Volunteer Fire Department is the first organization Nelson praises in the album's notes.
Tracy would sarcastically remark, "It seemed like the right thing to label these events," given that she shared the Grammy nom for "After the Fire Is Gone" with Willie Nelson.  The irony is not lost on Nelson because he chose the title of the record before the fire. She is a soul survivor and Victim of the Blues is as intensely felt as anything she has ever recorded..

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