CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP 10 FEATURES CANDYE KANE

Hi y'all, Candye's CD The Toughest Girl Alive was chosen by the Chicago Tribune as one of the Top 10 Blues Albums Of The Year! Following please find the article. Best, ADAM (Candye's manager)

                        BLUES' ALL-STARS ARE A DIVERSE LOT
                                By Steve Knopper

   Remember when country grew an outlaw branch in the late '80s? And
 Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam aimed their pointy boots at the rest of
 the genre? Blues may be in the middle of the same process; the
 stomping hill-country blues of R.L. Burnside, T-Model Ford and others
 has begun to seep into others' records. And while basic Chicago-style
 guitar slingers will never leave the smoky clubs, 2000's best blues
 albums are diverse enough to encompass a ninetysomething fife player
 (Otha Turner) and a jump-swinging former porn star (Candye Kane).

 Here are the year's top blues CDs:

 8. Candye Kane, "The Toughest Girl Alive" (Bullseye Blues/Rounder):
 Kane doesn't just sing about sex, the way blueswomen have done for the
 past century, she personifies it. In her bubbly-and-booming voice, sex
 is fun, aggressive, raunchy, flirty, not at all uptight and includes
 both male and female partners. Though Kane is as goofy as ever -- "For
 Your Love" has hilarious sound effects and lines like "I'm a White
 House intern for your love" -- the Los Angeles-born songwriter trades
 the winking innuendo of recent albums for jump-blues declarations such
 as "Je N'en Peux Plus Sans Ma Cadillac (I Can't Go On Without My
 Cadillac)."