Etta JamesBest Etta James Albums Ranked
8.2
Avg Score
16
Opinions
16
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 16 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Etta James’s catalog across 16 albums from 16 opinions, with an overall average of 8.2/10. The top-rated Etta James album is At Last! (1960) with a 8.9/10 average from 6 ratings, followed by Tell Mama and The Right Time. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1960 to 2011. At Last ranks as the highest-rated Etta James song on Rate.fm with a 10.0/10 average.
At Last!
“More than a half-century after its release, At Last! remains one of the greatest records about loneliness ever made: a languid, jazz-inflected paean to (reluctantly) working it out on your own.”
The Right Time
“There is no greater living blues singer than Etta James, and no producer more attuned to the right setting for a blues diva than Jerry Wexler. The recent collaboration between these two giants, The Right Time, is as spectacular an update of R&B as that statement suggests it would be. The album is overpowering in […]”
Seven Year Itch
“Etta James tore up audiences while at Chess Records in the Sixties. She opens this new set with the Otis Redding classic "I Got the Will," with horns blaring and former Muscle Shoals drummer Roger Hawkins keeping time. On the rest of the album, her first entirely new one in almost seven years, James proves […]”