Ms. Jody

	Ms. Jody

Ms Jody

Ms. Jody was born to the late Reverend Joe and Vertie Sims Pickens in Chicago, IL. She was raised in Bay Springs, Mississippi where she presently lives.

In 2006, at the suggestion of her friends Leo Johnson and William Day, Ms. Jody made a visit to Ecko Records in Memphis, TN where she was introduced to the staff. Shortly thereafter she joined the Ecko Records family and her first CD was released. The CD, entitled "You're My Angel" has brought Ms. Jody immediate recognition from the radio station programmers and their listeners. Songs like "Ms. Jody", "Sugar Daddy", and "Get Drunk Party" received heavy airplay and the label rushed out a second CD called "What You Gonna Do When The Is Due? before the year was out.

Album Discography

"I'm Miss Jody" (Ecko 2006)

"What You Gonna Do When The Rent Is Due?" (Ecko 2006) LISTEN

"I Never Take A Day Off" (Ecko 2008) LISTEN

Review by Steven Alvarez

*** To me Ms. Jody is Peggy Scott-Adams-lite. She has a similar tone and style just softer. That's not meant as a knock against "Jody" who has struck gold with the Southern soul steadies. Her last Ecko album has barely started to fade before we are treated to another one and it's slightly better than it's predecessor. Yes the sound is "boilerplate" (a favorite adjective of Living Blues when it comes to Ecko) but full bodied (hey I used to be a wine critic). The Chitlin' themes are all here. The clever "Energizer Bunny" is a cousin to Shirley Brown's "I Got To Sleep With One Eye Open" in that her man is a nympho. A simple Soul swayer with an especially solid vocal from the female Jody. Her man just "goes on and on and on and on." Can't imagine too many women complaining about that!

"Lonely Housewife" could fit thematically on the soundtrack to the dreadful TV show "Desperate Housewives". The best stab at Blues yet from our gal. Not everything hits though. "Two Strikes You're Out" is lyrically tired and "I'm Evening Up The Score" your typical what's-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gander tale. "I Never Take A Day Off" is a success nevertheless.