ANA POPOVIC "STILL MAKING HISTORY" Source: Guitar Edge Date: 09/2009 Writer: n/a

When you hail from the war-torn town of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, you might just know a thing or two about having the blues. Yet on Ana Popovic’s new album, Blind for Love, the upbeat numbers do more to usher you to the dance floor than to the bottom of the bottle. Throughout, Popovic puts on display a diverse set of six-string skills. On “Wrong Woman,” she offers up rather incendiary single-note lines, following it with foot-stomping acoustic slide riffing on “Steal Me Away,” and then entering torch song territory with both the title track and “More Real,” before careening into cabaret jazz–inflected blues on “The Only Reason.”

Highlights: “Wrong Woman,” “Steal Me Away,” “Get Back Home to You”