Sweaty blues rock with Sass

It's been more than 30 years since rock music was still important and had great relevance. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.

We look back in a series. Today we hear "Racine" by Sass Jordan.

Not quite as scratchy as the Black Crowes, but not quite as easy to care for as Bonnie Tyler either. The English-born Canadian Sass Jordan impresses with the good old virtues of good old rock'n'roll on her second record "Racine", in English "Roots".

Over sweaty blues rock numbers and steamy Southern riffs, blonde-haired sass scrapes out her glottis in the style of Rod Stewart: The opener "Make You A Believer" is a new classic bursting with power, "You Don't Have To Remind Me" is one clean acoustic ballad, the rest lies in between.

"Racine" is well thought out and well made and it doesn't try to be original either. A colorful ancestral gallery of Tina Turner, Janis Joplin hangs above Sass Jordan's piano stool at home; Bruce Springsteen, Lynyrd Skynyrd and John Mellencamp. Anyone who loves them will be perfectly served here.

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