Soulful Dress

Soulful Dress is a blues album by Marcia Ball. It is Ball's second solo album. Soulful Dress was released in 1984 through Rounder Records. Stevie Ray Vaughan played the first guitar solo on "Soulful Dress".

Critical reception

The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that "blues ballads and contemporary honky-tonk stylings further recommend an album that is both personally revealing and musically swinging." Nashville Scene called the album "one of the decade’s most nuanced explorations of New Orleans-style R&B."

Track listing

All songs written by Marcia Ball except as noted.

"Soulful Dress" – 3:16
"Make Your Move Too Soon" – 3:19
"I'd Rather Go Blind" – 5:08
"Jailbird" – 2:58
"Eugene" – 3:44
"My Mind's Made Up" – 2:29
"A Thousand Times" – 3:25
"That's Why I Love You" – 3:33
"Soul on Fire" – 4:46
"Don't Want No Man" – 3:00

Personnel

Piano, vocals – Marcia Ball
Bass – Don Bennett
Drums – Wes Starr
Guitar – Kenny Ray, Stevie Ray Vaughan
Horns – The Mighty Big Horns
Organ – Nick Connolly
Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Mark Kazanoff