Janiva Magness - Truth In The Room - The Clearmountain Sessions [Digipak CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: BER1611CD
Barcode: 0820233142250
Release Date: 07 Aug 2026
Genre: Blues

 Few voices in contemporary Blues carry the lived weight and luminous authenticity of Janiva Magness. Born in Detroit and forged by a childhood marked by hardship and loss, she found in music not just a calling but a lifeline.
 Over a career spanning more than three decades and 18 releases, Janiva has built one of the most honest and enduring bodies of work in American roots music. Along the way, she has earned multiple Blues Music Awards, a GRAMMY nomination for Best 
Contemporary Blues Album and the B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year award, one of the genre's highest individual honours.
 Live performance has always been the truest expression of who Janiva is. Fans have long clamoured for a recording that could capture what they experience in the room with her: that electricity, that give-and-take, the sense that something unrepeatable is unfolding in real time. For years, Magness held off, knowing the terms had to be right. That moment arrived with ‘Truth In The Room - The Clearmountain Sessions’, her sixth album for Blue Élan Records and her first comprehensive live record.
 Recorded at Berkeley Street Studios before an intimate gathering of 150 invited guests and engineered and mixed by the legendary Bob Clearmountain, the album captures not just the performance but the atmosphere, the warmth and the irreplaceable chemistry between a great artist, her band and an audience that is fully, joyfully present.

Tracklisting
My Bad Luck Soul
Slipped, Tripped and Fell In
Love Make It Rain
You Were Never Mine
That's What Love Will Make
You Do The Devil Is An
Angel Too
Closer
Hammer
Love Wins Again
Things Left Undone