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Article: All-women blues band is ending its uppity 25-year run
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- July 17, 2009
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MUSIC SCENE
From their start in 1984, Saffire the Uppity Blues Women have
tried to provoke the funnybone as much as the conscience. That has
made the trio a popular live act and helped their seven previous
albums on Alligator Records sell steadily.
But this summer and fall, the trio is on its farewell tour,
celebrating their final album, "Havin' the Last Word," and preparing
for solo projects. Saffire's tour comes to Johnny D's in Somerville
on Thursday.
Guitarist Gaye Adegbalola, reflecting on the band's career, said
the album is definitely the band's swan song - albeit one that is
"truly bittersweet."
Saffire has lost none of its satiric sting or uninhibited
feminine empowerment, as the ...