ZZ Ward - The Storm (New CD)

2017 release. ZZ Ward didn”t have to look far for inspiration on her second full-length album, The Storm. Equally evocative of blues grit and hip-hop bounce, the Los Angeles-based vocal powerhouse and multi-instrumentalist leapt forward by taking a deeper look at some of her earliest inspirations including Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and Vera Ward Hall and Big Mama Thornton. The Fedora-rocking, guitar-shredding, harmonica-wielding blues siren peppered an old back porch musical recipe with hip-hop urgency and hashtag wisdom on her 2012 mixtape Eleven Roses. Followed by her full-length debut Til The Casket Drops. “”For me, this album wasn”t really about experimenting,”” she admits. “”It was more about simplicity, honing in on what I love about music and what makes me who I am as an artist. Growing up, I listened to a lot of hip-hop and blues, and I love those two genres so much. Sometimes, to evolve you don”t need to go outside of yourself; you can reach further inside of yourself instead.””

• 1 Ghost
• 2 Cannonball (Feat. Fantastic Negrito)
• 3 Help Me Mama
• 4 The Storm
• 5 Domino (Feat. Fitz)
• 6 Let It Burn
• 7 Bag of Bones
• 8 She Ain”t Me
• 9 If U Stayed
• 10 Hold on
• 11 Ride (Feat. Gary Clark Jr.) [From “”Cars 3″”] [Bonus Track]