Artist..........: Meena
Album...........: Try Me
Genre...........: Blues
Label...........: Ruf Records
Catnr...........: RUF1156
Source..........: CDDA
Rip.Date........: 08-05-2010
Street.Date.....: 01-02-2010
Quality.........: VBR/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url.............: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Try-Me-Meena/dp/B003070ZYQ/
Size............: 71.38MB
Song.Title :
01. Try Me 4:59
02. Nothing Left 5:12
03. Send Me A Doctor 4:07
04. Put Your Hands Out Of My Pocket 5:30
05. Sorry 4:13
06. I'm Leaving You 3:54
07. This Song Is For You 5:20
08. I'd Rather Go Blind 6:36
09. Love Won't Fall Appart 3:32
10. Let Your Sweet Love Shine On Me 3:08
11. I Shoot You Down 4:34
12. Just As I Am 6:24
Runtime: 57:29 min
Release.Info :
Meena was born 1977 in a small catholic upper austrian village as the third
child of a master electrician and his wife. In summer she walked around
barefoot, sheltered among cows, meadows, trees and proud of her scratched knees.
When she was three Meena had her first encounters with ski, being pushed down
the hill. "That was cool", she rememembers chuckling. "Apart from that my people
successfully tried to get me into church which was easy because I liked the
sound of the organ. My mother taught me a lot during my girlhood. The world is
big, she said. And my dad told me to look for a safe place on earth.
When Meena learned to speak she immediately was taught how to sing. Grandpa
played the zither, mother and sister sang together with her. Good old folk from
upper austria, you know. Aside from that Meena and her sister many a time had to
volunteer songs at the local restaurant. "I wasn┤t to keen about that, but we
were given icecream and lemonade. Honestly, that was cool, because singing at
the restaurant was the only occassion for stuff like that. So I learned - among
other things - musical harmony and polyphonic singing from early on. I wrote my
first songs being seven years old. Music was something quite natural in our
everyday life and far away from commercialism. Just like eating and sleeping,
music was part of our life."
Meena was eleven when her brother died. He was only seventeen. "And I still miss
him so much, especially as he gave me my very first audio tape. A compilation of
music from the Seventies. And there was Jimi Hendrix who casted his spell over
me with ┤Voodoo Chile┤."
Four years later Meena founded her first band in company with a young guitar
player. "We were a psychedelic rock band in those days and we were lucky to play
many wild shows. It was a wonderful time. Apart from that I was a quite normal,
pubescent, school denying teenager with a liability to rebellion and a star-eyed
little idealist who wanted to improve the world. This is why I went to Mozamique
after having finished my degree. I worked there at a women┤s refuge. Then I
traveled through Europe and northern USA where I fell in love with Chicago, the
city┤s atmosphere, it┤s people and music. But Chicago was one thing, then came
Vienna. In Vienna I entered my name under my first managment contract."
In the meantime word had got around. Meena┤s naturalness and power on stage, her
authentic voice had aroused interest. Her approach to music and singing was and
is something special, powered by Meena┤s desire to deliver her art, driven by
her desire for freedom. "It was more than a wish, there was an inner force in me
to become a musician. Singing is my vocation, but my parents still don┤t regard
it like that."
The first thing she did was putting a band together. She worked on stage with
locals and musicians of international reputation as well, she played low paid
and well played gigs. She met producers and managers, booking agents,
co-producers, publishers and label bosses. "Somebody tried to make a pop singer
of myself, a rock queen, even a Tina Turner or a Janis Joplin double. As a
matter of fact, I was asked to learn the corresponding show routine. To no
avail. It would have been easier to tame my wild curls. And then, at the end,
then Thomas Ruf entered the place. He decided - against the regulations of the
mainstream music bizniz - to take me under his wings. Me, a rough singer,
clinged to the blues. A singer just sledded down from the mountains on to the
shaky ground of the record industry." Ruf flew Meena across the pond right into
the Mecca of the blues where she had an encounter of special importance.
"He brought me and my guitar player to Jim Gaines in Memphis for recording our
first official CD. From that moment on it felt for me like coming home. As if my
life in 1977 could have begun right here in Stantonville."
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