WANDA JOHNSON: Natural Resource

Wanda Johnson

Natural Resource

© 2006 Erwin Music (655025200425)

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Dynamic & emotional female vocalist performs tasteful original soul, blues & roots music

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Wanda Johnson is an intense and emotional modern singer whose music is a blend of soul, pop, blues, gospel, and folk influences.

"Natural Resource" is her second CD, a collection of fourteen new original songs (some of which she wrote, others written by producer/bandleader Shrimp City Slim)...Some rockin', some tender, all passionate.

Wanda (b. 1963, Anderson County, SC) comes from a large farming family and has lived with music all her life. She has been performing semi-professionally since the early 1990s. Many, after seeing her perform at the Chicago Blues Festival, Pocono Blues Festival, overseas (Italy, France, and soon China - late 2007), wonder when she will become a household name.

Both this album and her first CD "Call Me Miss Wanda" (2003, Erwin Music) have numerous songs in regular rotation on XM Satellite's "Bluesville" radio station. And one track off her first CD was used for a national TV/radio ad campaign for Curves For Women. That's only the beginning...

Get on board with this beautiful and fresh talent for the international music scene.

TOUR ALERT: See Wanda Johnson in Poland & Czech Republic November 10-December 1, 2008. 2009 prospects include Southern Comfort Lowcountry Blues Bash (February, Charleston, SC), Pocono Blues Festival (July, Blakeslee, PA) and a return engagement in Macau SAR. China. Please visit www.wandaj.com or www.myspace.com/misswandajohnson for calendar updates.

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  • Fabulous voice with fresh material.
    author: Wayne F.

    Wanda is a great talent, no pitchiness in her voice. R&Bers will enjoy this cd. Her first cd "Call Me Miss Wanda" is as good.

  • Highly recommended for all soul and R&B lovers
    author: Vicente Zumel (La Hora del Blues, Barcelona, Spain)

    Her warm sensual voice was an unexpected discovery for me...a straight tasteful work, masterfully performed...a highly recommended CD for all lovers of soul music and quality rhythm & blues.

  • A name we absolutely need to...remember
    author: Blues News (Germany)

    (Natural Resource) is an accomplished album from a singer whose name we need to absolutely take note of and remember.

  • A bright new star of the blues
    author: Richard Ludmerer (NY Blues & Jazz Society, contributor to BluesW

    There is not a weak track on the album...Wanda Johnson is a bright new star of the blues and destined to have a fabulous future.

  • The name ' Wanda Johnson ' is the equivalent of soulful blues
    author: Billy Bop Magazine (Belgium)

    The name Wanda Johnson is the equivalent of soulful blues. Like nobody else, she succeeds in blending a perfect soul voice with the piano-inspired blues of Shrimp City Slim. With almost and equal shares in songs and NO COVERS, this album is definitely one to check out if you like good vocal blues.

  • Look forward to the music business catching up with her
    author: Arthur Shuey (Blues Source)

    A few decades ago, she would have competed for major label attention with Carla Thomas, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, and Dionne Warwick, and that would have been tough...Take her in, let her take you back, and look forward to the music business catching up with her.

  • Another excellent album from Miss Wanda
    author: Norman Darwen (Blues & Rhythm, UK)

    Wanda Johnson's debut CD was, for me, one of the unexpected highlights of 2003 and I had been waiting eagerly ever since for a new recording...and finally here is the follow-up...classic Southern soul singer of the late '60s/early '70s style; sassy, jazz-inflected blues, gospel-drenched ballads...another excellent album from Miss Wanda!

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