Lou Ann Barton

Although she doesn't tour or record anywhere near as much as she probably could, Austin Texas-based singer Lou Ann Barton is among the finest purveyors of raw, emotional roadhouse blues, jump blues, and R&B one is likely to encounter. She can belt out a lyric with so much power and authority that she can be heard over a two-guitar band with horns and drums. Over the course of four decades, she has worked with a who's-who of American bluesmen and women including Marcia Ball, W.C. Clark, Angela Strehli, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan, Sue Foley, Omar Kent Dykes, Roomful of Blues,...