Etta James in Concert

Two-time Grammy award winner, NARAS Lifetime Achievement and W.C. Handy Blues Foundation honoree, with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, Etta James is an artist of genuinely legendary stature.

A pure blues singer, a jazz smoothie, a soulful ripper, Etta James can sing it all. And sing it all she will, along with her Roots Band, at the Louisville Palace on Sunday, August 16 at 7:30pm. Tickets will go on-sale Friday, June 12^th at Noon.

First discovered and recorded in 1954 by Blues legend Johnny Otis, Etta’s successful tenure with Chess Records began in 1960 and would continue for sixteen incredible years with a string of landmark hits that comprised a run of charting records that ranked Etta third, just behind Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick, as the most prolific female R&B vocalist of her era.

Etta would continue to make definitive blues, soul and R&B music over the next four decades, including her acclaimed 2003 release, Let's Roll, garnering a reputation as a world class live performer in the process. A year later, the Gramming-winning album Blues To The Bone, comprised updated versions of blues classics such as "Got My Mojo Working," "Lil' Red Rooster," "Dust My Broom," "Smokestack Lightning," and has brought the blues to life for a whole new generation.

Most recently, Etta showcased her enduring artistry on an amazing diversity of the eleven songs featured on 2006’s, “All The Way.” Produced by Etta’s sons Donto and Sametto and longtime musical associate Josh Sklair, “All The Way” includes a range of material that would prove challenging for even the most competent vocalists.

On the album,  Etta adds her special vocal magic to songs originally recorded by Prince (“Purple Rain”), Marvin Gaye (“What’s Going On”), Bobby Womack (“Stop On By”) and Simply Red (“Holding Back The Years”) alongside Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” (from ‘West Side Story’) and “All The Way,” the standard most often associated with Frank Sinatra. For good measure, Etta also included R. Kelly’s contemporary classic, “I Believe I Can Fly,” James Brown’s enduring “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” and John Lennon’s “Imagine.”