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\u201cWild Women Don\u2019t Have the Blues\u201d<\/strong>, the new album by singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and one-woman band Elli de Mon, is available on CD, LP and digital through the independent Italian label Area Pirata Records. Its release is preceded by the publication, on the same label, of the book of the same name by Elisa De Munari (the name the artist uses as a writer) and by the video for the single \u201cStrange Fruit\u201d, taken from the album.<\/p>\n

\u201cWild Women Don\u2019t Have the Blues\u201d<\/strong> is ideally the follow-up to \u201cCountin\u2019 the Blues\u201d<\/strong> (Area Pirata, 2021), an album that was very well received by the press, especially in the UK, with airplay on the BBC, and which was accompanied by the book \u201cCountin\u2019 the blues. Donne indomite\u201d (Arcana Edizioni), focused on the queens of the blues of the 1920s. After her latest album \u201cRa\u00ecse\u201d (Rivertale Productions, 2025), in which she explores her roots in the Vicenza dialect, Elli de Mon returns to English, with rough guitars and stripped-down beats, where the blues is not yet fixed history but living, restless matter, full of forgotten names and voices left on the margins: the African American women of early blues. She does so by performing ten traditional songs by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jesse Mae Hemphill, Mary Alice and Alan McGowan, Mattie Mae Thomas, Mississippi Matilda Powell, Mamie Smith, Sister O.M. Terrell, Ida Cox, Etta Baker and Billie Holiday. Here and in the pages of the book, there is the courage of those who sang against their assigned fate, defying social, moral and even musical conventions. A story of resistance, before it is a story of music.<\/p>\n

The first single from the album is \u201cStrange Fruit\u201d<\/strong> by Billie Holiday, with a video by Emilio Torreggiani – \u201cFor a long time I thought Strange Fruit was a song not to be touched. Then I realized I wanted to listen to it all the way through, and to do that I needed to sing it. It is a song that keeps questioning me because it manages to hold together an almost unbearable beauty and a horror that cannot be tamed. It offers no consolation and asks for no identification. It only asks us to stay present, to accept that there are pains we cannot fully understand but that concern us. That is why I chose to sing it in a church, even though I am not Catholic. I was looking for a place where silence was still possible. Today words are consumed too quickly, they become empty and dangerous slogans, they pile up until they turn into noise, and the noise ends up drowning out precisely what makes us most uncomfortable. I needed a space where listening could do the talking. At the heart of my version I interwove with Strange Fruit an ancient Venetian funeral lament, in which a father mourns his dead daughter. It is an image that in recent months I have seen resurface relentlessly before my eyes, in the bodies of the children killed in Gaza, in the pain of fathers and mothers forced to carry what no parent should ever have to carry. This choice was born from that resonance. That is why this interpretation is dedicated to the children of Gaza.\u201d Elli de Mon<\/em><\/p>\n

Credits:<\/strong>
\nElli de Mon: guitars, lap steel, drums, sitar, organ
\nCiro Montanari: tabla on \u201cHard working woman\u201d, \u201cI’m going down the road feeling bad\u201d
\nGiusi Pesenti: washboard on \u201cCrazy Blues\u201d, bones on \u201cI’m going to that city\u201d, spoons and jaw harp on \u201cWild women don’t have the blues\u201d
\nMarco Parmiggiani: pedal steel guitar on \u201cWild women don’t have the blues\u201d
\nRecorded, mixed and mastered by Marco Degli Esposti at Happenstance Recording Studio in Carbonarola (Mn), Italy.
\nCover artwork and graphic design by Riccardo Bucchioni
\nPhotos by Denis Ulliana<\/p>\n

Tracklist:<\/strong>
\n1.Two little fishes and five loavs of bread \u2013 Sister Rosetta Tharpe
\n2.She wolf \u2013 Jesse Mae Hemphill
\n3.My mother’s on the train \u2013 Mary Alice and Alan McGowan
\n4.Workhouse blues \u2013 Mattie Mae Thomas
\n5.Hard working woman blues \u2013 Mississippi Matilda Powell
\n6.Crazy Blues \u2013 Mamie Smith
\n7.I’m going to that city \u2013 Sister O.M. Terrell
\n8.Wild women don’t have the blues \u2013 Ida Cox
\n9.Going down the road feeling bad \u2013 Etta Baker
\n10.Strange fruit \u2013 Billie Holiday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[playlist ids=\"86138\"]\n

\u201cWild Women Don\u2019t Have the Blues\u201d<\/strong>, the new album by singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and one-woman band Elli de Mon, is available on CD, LP and digital through the independent Italian label Area Pirata Records. Its release is preceded by the book of the same name, written by Elisa De Munari, the name the artist uses as a writer, and by the video for the single \u201cStrange Fruit\u201d<\/strong>, directed by Emilio Torreggiani. The ideal follow-up to \u201cCountin\u2019 the Blues\u201d<\/strong> (Area Pirata, 2021), the album marks a return to English after \u201cRa\u00ecse\u201d (Rivertale Productions, 2025): rough guitars and stripped-down beats for ten traditional songs by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mamie Smith, Ida Cox, Etta Baker, Billie Holiday and other voices of early African American blues, where the blues is living matter and a story of resistance. \u201cStrange Fruit\u201d<\/strong>, sung in a church and woven together with an ancient Venetian funeral lament, is dedicated to the children of Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":86134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1992],"class_list":["post-86161","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-cd-digipack-en","product_tag-garage","product_tag-soul-ska","first","instock","featured","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":{"etichetta":"Area Pirata","peso_imballato":90,"progrssivo":"","data_uscita_disco":null,"recensioni":"","interviste":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/86161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/86161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=86161"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.areapirata.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=86161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}