Shelley King (album release)

Kick Up Your Heels opens with an ode to playing Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble, which embodies Shelley King’s ninth LP. A-listers Carolyn Wonderland, Delbert McClinton, Marcia Ball, and others contribute, but it’s the local songwriter’s signature bluesy licks and powerhouse vocals that shoot through low-down Southern burners, rollicking boogies, and explosive soul stunners. – Doug Freeman