Artist: NO SINNER
Album: BOO HOO HOO (DIGI)

Release date: 2013
Media type: CD

25-year-old Colleen Rennison is a force of nature, a post modern blues belter and queen of soul, a hard-singing, hard-loving, hard-drinking, hard-working throwback to those she grew up listening to, including Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Big Mama Thornton, and Bessie Smith.

“People have been telling me I’ve sounded like Janis Joplin since I was five years old,” the actress/singer admits. “My mom was a little wary of introducing me to her at an early age. Maybe she wanted to keep me away from sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll as long as possible.

If that was the case, her mom failed miserably, because Rennison, who learned from a cousin that her name was “No Sinner” spelled backwards, is now the singer of a raucous rock band with guitarist Eric Campbell, drummer Ian Browne and bassist Bradley Ferguson. 

Boo Hoo Hoo travels from the juke-joint jump blues rockabilly of its title track and the Delta swamp of “Running,” with a chugging Creedence beat, to "Love Is Madness" with a Motown bass line and a Dusty Springfield “Spooky” vibe. Other highlights include a cover of Nina Simone’s version of Nat Adderley / Oscar Brown Jr.'s “Work Song”, the soaring, affirmative gospel revival of “Rise Up,” the sensuous plaint of “If Anything” and the feedback-charged “Devil on My Back,” a band composition that features Black Mountain's Matt Camirand. 

No Sinner’s music is about the clash between the sacred and the profane, the preacher and the devil, the sins of Saturday night at the local watering hole being washed away in the redemption of Sunday morning in church; in short, the very contradiction at the heart of rock ’n’ roll.

TRACKLIST:

1. Boo Hoo Hoo
2. Love Is a Madness
3. Runnin'
4. If Anything
5. Work Song
6. That'd Be The Day
7. Rise Up
8. Devil On My Back
9. September Moon

Running Time: 38 min.