1.	My Man Stands Out	3:42
2.	Boogie Woogie For Spann	4:18
3.	St. Louis Blues	7:26
4.	Blues Train	3:56
5.	One Track Mind	3:22
6.	Empty Bed Blues	6:20
7.	I Want You To Be My Baby  	3:58
8.	Cry to Me	5:16
9.	No One	5:42
10.	You're Moving Me	3:11

Dana Gillespie - vocals
Martin Wichtl - tenor sax
Christian Plattner - tenor sax
Joachim Palden - piano
Helmut Mejda - drums

Good night club entertainment, perhaps not as good for every day listening. Very professional performances by all featured artists. --- William Tulloss, amazon.com

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01. Who's Got The Blues to Blame - 5:03
02. Too Blue to Boogie? - 3:53
03. Blue Night - 4:35
04. Baby Blue - 5:15
05. Blue Water - 4:37
06. Back to the Blues - 3:35
07. Travelling Man Blues - 4:13
08. Guardian Blue Angel - 3:58
09. The Sky Will Still Be Blue - 3:30
10. It Makes Me Blue - 5:27
11. Turning Over a Blue Leaf - 4:51
12. Queen of the Blues - 3:46

These days Dana Gillespie is renowned as a blues singer. But back in the 1960s, she was an ingénue pop/folk singer whose relationship with singer Donovan helped set her on the road to success. However, despite some great singles – including, most notably, the Donovan-penned You just gotta know my mind – and a couple of highly credible albums, her career was slow to take off.

She was born Richenda de Winterstein Gillespie on 30 March 1949 in Woking, Surrey. She grew up dividing her time between England and the family villa on Lake Maggiore in Italy.

As a child she took a keen interest in sports and by 13, she was the British junior water skiing champion, a title she held for four years in a row. She also had a passion for music, and she became the drummer in a band she formed, performing some local gigs.

As a teenager, she was drawn to London’s club scene, becoming a frequent visitor at the Marquee club in particular. She even got to sing in the club, and was promptly offered a contract by The Yardbirds’ manager, though she turned it down.

She also began hanging around with folk singer Donovan, and their association led to a recording deal for Dana with his label, Pye Records. He also played guitar on Donna Donna, which was issued as her debut single in 1965. It was swiftly followed by Thank you boy, produced by Jimmy Page (later of Led Zeppelin). Neither 45 shifted in any great quantity and Dana began acting, appearing in the 1966 films Secrets of a windmill girl and Fumo di Londra (Smoke over London). Returning to music, she toured with The Hollies and others and cut a version of the Manchester group’s Pay you back with interest, which was issued as a single in 1967. When Decca’s Dick Rowe spotted her, he was quick to sign her up. (He is reported to have been less interested in her singing ability than in, er, two of her more visible assets.)

Donovan wrote the terrific You just gotta know my mind, which became Dana’s debut 45 for the new label in November 1968. Again Jimmy Page took production credits. Great things were expected of the release but it wasn’t to be. The song was also recorded in French and issued in France as Tu n’as vraiment pas changé. (The B-side, Il m’aime, il ne m’aime pas, was a version of her own composition He loves me, he loves me not.)

She kept up her acting work too, appearing in the Hammer horror film The lost continent. On the music front, an album, the highly accomplished Foolish seasons, gained a US release that year. Though Dana now dismisses some of its more lightweight tracks, the LP stands up as a great example of late 1960s British psych-pop.

A second LP, Box of surprises, was issued a year later. Dana had penned all of its tracks and the album was folkier and bluesier than its predecessor. Neither LP troubled chart compilers, however.

In 1970 she joined the rock musical Catch my soul and met David Bowie’s manager, Tony Defries. Dana was already friends with Bowie and it was suggested that he should produce her third album. However, by the time she came to record Weren’t born a man in 1973, Bowie’s career had taken off and he didn’t have time to do it, though he did write a track, Andy Warhol, for the album, which was also issued as a single.

Dana headed off to New York City to promote the album, but after a further LP, she became caught up in litigation with her management company, which took three years to resolve. She was prevented from recording during this period, so she focused on acting, appearing in Ken Russell’s Mahler in 1974, The people that time forgot in 1977 and opposite Dudley Moore in Hound of the Baskervilles in 1978, where her ample bosom became the subject of much innuendo. A few further TV appearances followed in the 1980s.

When she returned to music, it was to blues that she devoted herself. Indeed, it is as a blues singer that she is now known. She also recorded a few albums in Sanskrit under the name of Third Man. She continues to sing blues internationally to this day. --- readysteadygirls.eu

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1.Cat's Meow
2.Love Matters
3.Eternally Yours
4.Eureka Moment
5.Last Chance Saloon
6.Hands Of Hope
7.Love Moves
8.Running Out Of Steam
9.It's Alchemy
10.Two Faced Girls
11.Giving Out To Everyone

Dana Gillespie - Vocals
Evan Jenkins - Drums
David Malin - Percussion, Vocals (Background)
Mike Paice - Harmonica, Saxophone
Jeff Walker - Bass
Artie Zaitz - Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Keyboards, Organ, Percussion, Piano (Electric)
Jake Zaitz - Guitar, Mixing, Percussion

“Cat’s Meow” is a CD recorded in collaboration with Jake Zaitz, the guitarist in the London Blues Band for the last seven years. It came about when we had some time off in Italy– what better thing to do for musicians than write songs. It started with us getting a groove going and then came the chord progressions. Once this was done I was left with a backing track so I could do what I love to do best, which is write lyrics. My subject is always love in its many aspects, which can mean lost love too. As Jake also works in a studio, it was quite easy to get the rest of the band to come in and lay the tracks down. Usually the London Blues Band has the energetic Dino Baptiste on piano, but for this project Jake worked with his talented son Artie Zaitz, who is making a very good name for himself in the music business. Artie is also on second guitar.

Everyone who knows me knows I am mad about cats and would rather spend an evening with a purring four-legged friend than most humans. Wherever I go in the world, I’m always on the lookout for feline company. In 2011 I was in a small Russian town with a name I can’t even remember now. I’ll never forget what happened there. I was hit by a strange virus so severe that my blood pressure shot up and I could hardly walk. For the first time in about 30 years I had to cancel my concerts. As I was too ill to travel, I was taken to a home to be looked after by caring doctors and nurses. On the way there I heard that someone had thrown out a kitten that morning. It was lying at the bottom of the cold stairs when I arrived. I simply couldn’t walk past such a lonely small black bundle of fluff, so I scooped it up and it immediately nestled in to my neck as I made my way up to the place where I would be bedbound for the next 10 days. All through the daily visits of doctors with injections coming to my room, this tiny little black angel slept across my neck and didn’t move unless to go to the cat tray I’d had put in my room. I also gave someone money to buy cat food, as I knew this poor little kitten had been starved of not just food, but love and attention. I named him Santosh, which means Happiness in Hindi. His colour was black with bright golden eyes and a remarkable double moustache. In the next 10 days he doubled in size, having finally been fed properly. He never left my side until the night before I was due to leave. He must have sensed my departure as he slept for the first time by my feet instead of straddled across my neck. I was very worried he would have no home once I was gone, so I gave some food money to a friend and asked her to keep him until a suitable place was found. Two months later she emailed me to say a friend of hers had just had a dream in which she was given a black cat – and thus it was Santosh found a new home. He was also given a new name, Krishna, and I have a photograph of him peeping out of his new mother’s jacket. One of these days I intend to return to Russia to see if my black saviour will remember me. I know it was his presence on my neck that cured me and I keep thinking had I been ill in good old England, I never would have been allowed to keep a kitten in my bed. If I ever get hospital bound again, I shall look for one that allows cats, but it’s sadly unlikely to ever be allowed in most over-sanitised countries. ---Dana Gillespie, acerecords.co.uk

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1 Experienced
2 Tough Love
3 One Kiss X 108
4 Something Coming
5 Break Down the Door
6 Ten Ton Blocks
7 Crying for the Moon
8 There Will Always Be a New Tomorrow
9 Try Me
10 Happy Birthday Blues
11 Me Without You
12 Take It Like a Man

Dana Gillespie - vocals, background vocals
Matt Schofield, Todd Sharpville - Guitar
Ian Siegal - Rhythm Guitar, Slide Guitar, Backing Vocals
Sam Mitchell - bottleneck guitar
Javier Garcia - bass
Dino Baptiste - piano, organ, harmonica, backing vocals
Nick Hogarth - keyboards
Evan Jenkins - drums
Big Mart Winning, Nick Payn - saxophone
Mike Paice - alto saxophone solo
Sid Gauld, Martin Drover - trumpet
David Malin - tambourine, percussion, backing vocals
Rolf Harris - wobbleboard
Shining Bear - didgerydoo
Laura Pallas, Ricky P.Washington, Corinna Greyson - Backing Vocals

Vocalist Dana Gillespie's first album was released when she was only 15. Over the next four decades, as a strong presence in the world of music, she was part of the recording of around 40 albums. In the beginning of her career in the '60s, she sang folk tunes. At some point in the '70s, she moved on to rock. By the '80s she turned her attention fully to something that was one of her first loves: the blues. In between all of that recording, Gillespie the actress stayed in the spotlight on the theater stage in shows like Jesus Christ Superstar, and in films like The Hound of the Baskervilles.

A young Dana Gillespie began performing folk music at festivals where she had large and diverse audiences to please. It gave her the perfect chance to polish her skills and learn to entertain, as well as to simply perform. During those first few years, Gillespie recorded a number of singles and two albums on the Decca and Pye labels. By 1973, she had moved on to the major label RCA and found herself working with David Bowie, who stood in as producer on a number of her recordings. The '70s saw her release such albums as Weren't Born a Man and Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle. When not performing behind the microphone, Gillespie was working behind the camera in films like Sink or Swim, Mahler, and the cult classic, The People That Time Forgot, which was a sequel to The Land That Time Forgot.

In the '80s, Gillespie maintained a hectic professional schedule, leading a double life, and maybe a triple one at times. She kept at her music, touring through the United States, Europe, and other countries. She also went back into the studio to complete several albums, including I'm a Woman, Blue Job, Move Your Body Close to Me, Below the Belt, Hot News, and Sweet Meat. She continued to show off her acting abilities, and her beauty, in movies like Parker, Scrubbers, Bad Timing, and Strapless. In between the rest, she fit in numerous television appearances.

No one could accuse Gillespie of slowing down in the '90s -- not with the more than a dozen albums she released that decade. She entered the new millennium much the same way. By these later years, she had come full force into the blues, her voice reaching that edge, her life experiences varied enough to feel and understand the songs she both sings and writes. Some of the tunes fans will find on albums from this Gillespie period are "Who's Got the Blues to Blame," "Give Me Your Best Shot," "The Sky Will Still Be Blue," "Guardian Blue Angel," "You Make Me Feel So Good," "Who Blew the Blues Away," and "Turning Over a Blue Leaf." She has stayed a strong part of the music scene by organising The Mustique Blues Festival every year and through her radio show called "Globetrotting" With Gillespie, which airs on Blue Danube Radio in Vienna and focuses on African and Indian music with a bit of blues too. In 2003 Gillespie released a new record for Ace called Staying Power which celebrated her 40th year in the music industry and showed her to be as strong a vocalist as ever. --- Charlotte Dillon, allmusic.com

Despite having released over 60 albums, and written hundreds of songs, the multi-talented Dana Gillespie remains very much an overlooked vocalist. "Experienced" is a great collection of songs with blues, blues rock, soul blues, jazz, and R&B elements. Very much in the style of the early Elkie Brooks, Dana's powerful, gritty voice, some great songs, and artists including Matt Schofield, Ian Siegal, and Sam Mitchell on guitar, and Nick Hogarth on keys make "Experienced" a great album. Listen to Dana's "Box of Surprises", and "Staying Power" albums.

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01. Funk Me, It's Hot! (4:43)
02. It's Gonna Be A Long Night (3:32)
03. Twenty Four Seven (6:15)
04. When Cries Become Sighs (5:10)
05. Your Love Is True (4:58)		play
06. Strange Are The Ways Of Love (5:08)
07. Game Over (3:56)			play
08. The House Of Blues (4:43)
09. Guilty As Hell (5:25)
10. I Rest My Case (5:28)
11. Wall-To-Wall Love (4:15)
12. Unify (4:42)
13. Could Ve, Should Ve, Would Ve (5:58)

Personnel: 
Dana Gillespie (vocals, background vocals); 
Jake Zaitz (guitar, percussion); 
Mike Paice (harmonica, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); 
Julien Brunetaud (piano, electric piano, organ); 
Artie Zaitz (organ, congas, percussion, background vocals); 
Evan Jenkins (drums); 
David Malin (percussion, background vocals); 
Katie Kaitz (background vocals).

2010 release from the British Blues Queen. All 13 tracks were written by Dana, either on her own or with members of her top-notch band. Dana thinks it's the best record she's made for several years.

Vocalist Dana Gillespie's first album was released when she was only 15. Over the next four decades, as a strong presence in the world of music, she was part of the recording of around 40 albums. In the beginning of her career in the '60s, she sang folk tunes. At some point in the '70s, she moved on to rock. By the '80s she turned her attention fully to something that was one of her first loves: the blues. In between all of that recording, Gillespie the actress stayed in the spotlight on the theater stage in shows like Jesus Christ Superstar, and in films like The Hound of the Baskervilles.

A young Dana Gillespie began performing folk music at festivals where she had large and diverse audiences to please. It gave her the perfect chance to polish her skills and learn to entertain, as well as to simply perform. During those first few years, Gillespie recorded a number of singles and two albums on the Decca and Pye labels. By 1973, she had moved on to the major label RCA and found herself working with David Bowie, who stood in as producer on a number of her recordings. The '70s saw her release such albums as Weren't Born a Man and Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle. When not performing behind the microphone, Gillespie was working behind the camera in films like Sink or Swim, Mahler, and the cult classic, The People That Time Forgot, which was a sequel to The Land That Time Forgot.

In the '80s, Gillespie maintained a hectic professional schedule, leading a double life, and maybe a triple one at times. She kept at her music, touring through the United States, Europe, and other countries. She also went back into the studio to complete several albums, including I'm a Woman, Blue Job, Move Your Body Close to Me, Below the Belt, Hot News, and Sweet Meat. She continued to show off her acting abilities, and her beauty, in movies like Parker, Scrubbers, Bad Timing, and Strapless. In between the rest, she fit in numerous television appearances.

No one could accuse Gillespie of slowing down in the '90s -- not with the more than a dozen albums she released that decade. She entered the new millennium much the same way. By these later years, she had come full force into the blues, her voice reaching that edge, her life experiences varied enough to feel and understand the songs she both sings and writes. Some of the tunes fans will find on albums from this Gillespie period are "Who's Got the Blues to Blame," "Give Me Your Best Shot," "The Sky Will Still Be Blue," "Guardian Blue Angel," "You Make Me Feel So Good," "Who Blew the Blues Away," and "Turning Over a Blue Leaf." She has stayed a strong part of the music scene by organising The Mustique Blues Festival every year and through her radio show called "Globetrotting" With Gillespie, which airs on Blue Danube Radio in Vienna and focuses on African and Indian music with a bit of blues too. In 2003 Gillespie released a new record for Ace called Staying Power which celebrated her 40th year in the music industry and showed her to be as strong a vocalist as ever. ---allmusic.com

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