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Martha Reeves Teases First Album in 22 Years: ‘I’m Just Glad to Still Be Here’

Rolling Stone·Kory Grow·25 days ago
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The Motown legend can’t forget the Crescent City on Searching , which features jazz and soul songs she recorded with Delfeayo Marsalis in New Orleans She’s a couple of months shy of turning 85, but Martha Reeves ‘ voice still booms with all the excitement of an invitation across the nation when she picks up the phone in her home (which you can’t forget is still the Motor City). “It’s a beautiful day,” she exclaims, her smile coming down the phone line. Reeves, whose powerful voice fueled “Heat Wave,” “Nowhere to Run,” and, of course, “Dancing in the Street” six decades ago, has reason to celebrate: She will release her first new album in more than two decades, Searching , on Aug. 14. One of the things she sought for the album, whose title “represents hope for the future in all things,” was a change of scenery. So she recorded the album with two co-producers — trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis and her longtime manager, Chris Roe — in New Orleans.…

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