Label: Alligator Records.
Release Date: September 5, 1991.
Recording Time: 54 minutes.
Release Info: Studio Recording.
Recording information: Streeterville Recording Studios, Chicago, IL. Mastered at DMS, New York, NY.
Styles: Modern Acoustic Blues, Folk-Blues.
In many ways, Hot Flash is the definitive Saffire album. Racy and sassy -- and to some tastes cutesy -- the album is a fun, free-thinking update of classic female blues, performed with gusto and verve. The instrumentation is sparse -- a piano, guitar, bass, harmonica, and kazoo provide the foundation of the music -- but the focus of these songs is solely on the vocals, which are vigorous and humorous. If you share Saffire's sense of humor, it's a rollicking good time. - Review by Thom Owens.
New York Times (Publisher) (1/1/92) - "Post-feminist traditional blues, sung and played with gorgeous abandon."
Personnel: Ann Rabson (vocals, guitar, kazoo, piano); Gaye Adegbalola (vocals, guitar); Earl Lewis, Earlene Lewis (vocals); Billy Branch (harmonica).
Credits: Gaye Adegbalola - composer, guitar, vocals; Peter Amft - photography; Lucille Bogan - composer; Billy Branch - harmonica; Tom Coyne - mastering; Sam Fishkin - engineer, mixing; Bruce Iglauer - producer; Earl Lewis - bass, vocals; Earlene Lewis - bass, vocals; Kansas Joe McCoy - composer; Matt Minde - cover design; Ann Rabson - composer, guitar, kazoo, piano, vocals; Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women - primary artist, producer.
Tracks: 1) Two In The Bush Is Better Than One In The Hand; 2) Sloppy Drunk; 3) One Good Man; 4) Dirty Sheets; 5) Tom Cat Blues; 6) Learn To Settle For Less; 7) You'll Never Get Me Out Of Your Mind; 8) (Mr. Insurance Man) Take Out That Thing; 9) Hopin' It'll Be Alright; 10) A Little Bit Of Your Loving Goes A Very Long Way; 11) Shopping For Love; 12) Elevator Man; 13) Torch Song #1 / Torch Song #2; 14) Why Don't You Do Right?; 15) Prove Me Wrong; 16) (No Need) Pissin' On A Skunk.