Sunday Wilde
Country of origin:
Canada
Type of music generally:
Vintage—flavored jazz/blues
Status:
Most recent release, Peace in Trouble (featuring Harpdog Brown, 2021)
See also:
Sunday Wilde's site
Comparisons:
Madeleine Peyroux, Norah Jones, Joan Osborne
Covers/own material:
Own and occasional covers
General comments:
Pleasant and appealing bluesy music with jazz leanings. (stjarnell@yahoo.com)
Recommended first album:
Broken String of Pearls is the first we've heard
Recordings include:
- Black Pearls of Wisdom (2006)
- Broken String of Pearls (2009)
- What Man!?? Oh That Man!! (2010)
- He gave me a blue nightgown (2013)
- He Digs Me (2014)
- Blueberries & Grits (2016)
- Two (with Reno Jack, 2017)
- Sunday Wilde & the 1 Eyed Jacks (2021)
- Peace in Trouble (featuring Harpdog Brown, 2021)
- Sunday Wilde & the 1 Eyed Jacks (2021)
- Peace in Trouble (featuring Harpdog Brown, 2021)
Broken String of Pearls (2009)
Release info:
2009—self-released
Availability:
Sunday Wilde's site
Ecto priority:
Recommended
Group members:
Sunday Wilde—vocals, piano, percussion
Guest artists:
David West—guitar (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9)
Greg Schultz—bass (1), percussion (8)
Wolfe Wall—clarinet (2, 9), cello (7, 9), flute (8)
Tom Sinkins—bass (3, 4)
Lucas Paulson—piano (10)
Produced by:
Ange Sponchia
Comments:
Sunday Wilde plays a nice brand of retro blues/jazz and her vocal are warm and inviting. She's hardly reinventing the genre, but she has such fun with it that it hardly matters. "Don't sit around waiting" makes good use of the growl inherent in Wilde's vocals and evokes a nice mood. "Smooth talking man" has some nice honky tonk piano and a sassy lead vocal. "Trouble coming at me from behind" is another winner, Wilde playing deft piano and adding a sultry vocal. It's as blue as can be and it really works. She reminds me of others in the genre, most notably Madeleine Peyroux, but she has her own voice. (stjarnell@yahoo.com)
What Man!?? Oh That Man!!
Release info:
2010—self-released
Availability:
Sunday Wilde's site
Ecto priority:
Highly recommended
Group members:
Sunday Wilde—vocals, piano, sound effects
Guest artists:
Ronnie Hayward—upright bass
David West—guitar
Produced by:
Sunday Wilde
Comments:
Sunday Wilde follows her previous bluesy outing with an even wilder and more focused adventure. Her sassy vocals are as strong as ever, and her piano playing is ace. The feline opener "That man drives me mad" is a high—octane opener as Wilde suggestively pants and growls her words out. The more subtle approach in "Sunday's midnight blues" works fine and shows her voice at its deepest and most beguiling. "My baby's dead" is an Eastern European tinged nightmare about a grieving woman that allows Wilde room to roam with her peerless vocal prowess. She's made a fabulous record that should appeal to many. (stjarnell@yahoo.com)
He gave me a blue nightgown
Release info:
2013—self-released
Availability:
Sunday Wilde's site
Ecto priority:
Highly recommended
Group members:
Sunday Wilde
Guest artists:
David West—guitar
Rory Slater
Dawson Paulson—drums
Virgil Denmark—violin
Janice Matichuk—accordion
Produced by:
Rennie Frattura AKA Reno Jack, Tom Shapiro
Comments:
Sunday Wilde continues with her vintage jazz/blues and she's really firing on all cylinders here. "Capured me" is fiery and cool, Wilde's vocal at its most expressive. "Shaken down" is a saucy blues number that the band tackles well, and Wilde's vocal are just right. She handles "Amazing Grace" with her customary élan; it's an original way of doing the song. She closes the album with a neat take on Bessie Smith's "Blue spirit Blues". (stjarnell@yahoo.com)
Two
with Reno Jack
Release info:
2017—self-released
Availability:
Sunday Wilde's site
Ecto priority:
Highly recommended
Group members:
Sunday Wilde, Reno Jack
Guest artists:
Cleave Anderson—drums
Steve Koch—guitar
John MacLeod—guitar, harmonica
Produced by:
John Borra, Peter J. Moore
Comments:
The opening salvo of Willie Dixon's "Howling for my darling" is energetic and cool. "Moonlight Rising" sees Reno Jack take over on vocals and it's a neat tune.
"5-10-15 Hours" is a neat duet, both singers at their best, and Wilde sounding very sultry.
Sam Cooke's "Rome wasn't built in a day" gets a great reading by both singers.
It's a very neat, robust record that shows the duo have a lot of fun and so will anyone listening to this. (stjarnell@yahoo.com)
Thanks to Anna Maria Stjärnell for work on this entry.
