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Sunday, January 22, 2012

133. Sultry


From, “Remembering Etta James,” by Paul Devlin, 1/20/12, The Root:

“Music has lost another icon, the miraculously voiced Etta James, whose sultry soul, going back to the 1950s, provided a mature sound track for several generations.”

Sultry: attractive in a way that suggests a passionate nature
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