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Etta James is a legend of modern music, boasting a distinguished five-decade career that's included successful forays into the worlds of rock, blues, soul, jazz and more. James is a three-time Grammy award winner, a winner of the NARAS Lifetime Achievement Award, Rhythm and Blues Foundation Pioneer Award and W.C. Handy Blues Foundation honoree. Oh yeah--and the woman can sing, working with a range of material that could render many famous singers helpless. On her new record All The Way, James struts her stuff and shows she's still got it with a track list of standards from fellow musical icons as diverse as Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Guitar Watson, Frank Sinatra and Marvin Gaye. James relates an old adage her mother once shared with her: "Even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it." With All The Way, James has done all that and more.