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Etta James – Rocks the House (LP Vinyl) artist-khruangbin 24 Hr Sports sees aRecorded the same year she was tearing up the chitlin' circuit, *Rocks the House* captures Etta James at a moment when her raw, church trained vocal power hadn't yet been smoothed into the polished soul that would define her later Chess Records work. The New Era Club setting was no accident; Nashville's Black music venues were incubators for exactly this kind of unfiltered R&B electricity, and James fed off a room like few singers of her era could.