Don’t Cry Baby/Fool That I Am/One For My Baby/In My Diary/Seven Day Fool/Its Too Soon To Know/Dream/I’ll Dry My Tears/Plum Nuts/Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Second Time Around is the follow up album from blues artist Etta James where she again demonstrates her versatility and emotional delivery on a variety of musical styles.
“Her record company was unsure whether to market her as an R & B singer or to press her toward mainstream adult pop and jazz. This album presents both sides of the coin, with James doing rousing R & B numbers such as Seven Day Fool and the proto-soul of Don't Cry Baby, lounge tunes like One For My Baby, the jazz-flavoured ballad Fool That I Am, Ellington's Don’t Get Around Much Anymore and a cover of the pop standard Dream. It hardly matters, though, for James's emotional immediacy and potent delivery make all the material her own.”
“Her follow up album contains a better variety of songs and more complex arrangements with less clutter to them.”
“Etta has made more famous recordings but Second Time Around will always be one of her landmark achievements. It has track to track excellence.”
“Etta James's second album isn't what you pull off the shelf when you want to hear her belt some soul. Like her debut, it found Chess presenting her as more or less a pop singer, using orchestration arranged and conducted by Riley Hampton, mostly tackling popular standards of the '40s. If you're not a purist, this approach won't bother you in the least; James sings with gusto, proving that she could more than hold her own in this idiom as well.”
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