The truth is, nobody can make the blues sound more “all right” than Felicia Fields, whether the songs she is singing are designed to generate laughter, endurance, love, pain, faith and more.
Felicia Fields in “Pearl’s Rollin’ with the Blues” at the Writers Theatre in Glencoe.
And while this is a show that explores the many aspects of the blues, it leaves you feeling anything but blue. In fact, it would be difficult to think of a more ideal, mostly laugh-inducing tonic for this moment when the world seems truly out of control. But for the most part Fields, dressed in a grandly glittery gown designed by Rueben Echoles, works from the stage, performing about 15 songs. She starts with a slew of sexy, sassy, teasingly suggestive classics including “Wang Dang Doodle,” “Built for Comfort,” “My Stove’s in Good Condition,” “Rough and Ready Man,” “Got My Mojo Working,” “Mess of a Man” and “You Can Have My Husband .
Fields shares the stage with the man who goes by the name of Chic Street Man, who doubles as music director, guitarist and actor/singer in performances of songs that follow much the same trajectory as Fields,’ with “C’mon in My Kitchen,” “Hey, Hey, Baby, Hey,” “Hypocritical Woman,” “Fly Away,” “Beautiful,” and “Lord I Tried,” which is about trying to reach perfection but never managing to be free from sinning.
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