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Candye Kane
Toughest Girl Alive
Album: Toughest Girl Alive
Genres: Blues
No-nonense boogie-woogie from a big mama who don't take no mess!

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	There's a possibly apocryphal Candye Kane story that goes like this: a few years back, legendary KISS bassist and all-around sleazebag Gene Simmons propositioned Candye at a Hollywood music shindig. Candye's reply? "Maybe if you were George Jones or something, I'd consider it!" True or not, that same kind of sass permeates this boogie-woogie title track from her latest waxing. "I used to be an angel / But it nearly got me killed," she sings, making one wish that the voluptuous Candye had been cast in the new Charlie's Angels, instead of that annoying Q-tip Lucy Liu. The track rocks nicely, harkening back to the jump-blues era without wallowing in retro-minded campiness, and the reverb-drenched guitar solo is a killer. If people across this great land would only give out this kind of Candye for Halloween, the youth of America would have whiter teeth, cleaner gums, and one bad-ass mama for a role model!

	*Dan Epstein*
	Dan Epstein is a Los Angeles-based journalist and pop-culture historian whose work has appeared in L.A. Weekly, BAM, Raygun, Guitar World and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. His first book, Twentieth Century Pop Culture, was published in 1999 by Carlton Books.