ANA POPOVIC "STILL MAKING HISTORY" Source: Blues Matters Date: 10/2009 Writer: Richard Thomas

A Netherlands-based Serbian female Blues guitarist ripping up the US with Billboard Blues chart success with always register on the radar of most aficionados with an eye for something different.  Throw in some serious critics comparing her to Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan and you are duty bound to listen to what she can do.  The conclusion is that Ana Popovic can do plenty, and even though "Blind For Love" stays anchored to her Blues roots, there is plenty of elasticity in the chain.

Under the influence of producers with experience working with AC/DC, Prince, and Paul McCartney, there is something for those who like it heavy in "Wrong Women", and her slightly accented, breathless vocals give everything the requisite raunchiness when required.  The sound of the Deep South is evoked in "Steal Me Away", but even that has added edge, and she seamlessly switches from mellow to rough, atmospheric to simplicity and back again throughout fourteen quality tracks.  Ricky Lee Jones is in there, some "Car Wash" funkiness in “Lives That Don't Exist", and for cynics who focus on novelty and image, the soloing and song writing craft of album highlight "Putting Out The APB" shows that Popovic has many added dimensions.  The finale of "Blues For M" is a building jazzy Blues number with a memorable building crescendo leaving the residual emotion that Ana Popovic is a jack of all trades and master of them all - it's a gem.