Tuesday, May 3, 2011: Patti Scialfa - Love (Stand Up)

I love it when a song kicks it up into high gear. When a song suddenly shifts gears from low to high, changes direction or just brings all the elements together for one big rowdy dust-up.

For Love (Stand Up), it's the little drum fill that cues the chorus of "Stand Up, Stand Up!" that moves this from good to really great. And very cool.

This is off her 2004 album "23rd Street Lullaby", which was recorded a whopping 11 years after her debut album "Rumble Doll".

Patti Scialfa is the real deal. No really, she's from Deal, New Jersy.  But besides that, she's got the resume that screams "I got this from working hard from the bottom up", not from a lucky break or relying on more marketing than music.

There is a sexy and sultry quality about her voice that presses all the right buttons, I like her stuff a lot.