| Hot Flash | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women |
| Cover: | Hot Flash (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1991 |
| Studio: | Streeterville |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Label: | Alligator |
| Producer: | Saffire, Bruce Iglauer |
| Prev Title: | Uppity Blues Women |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Broad Casting |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Hot Flash is an album by the American musical trio Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, released in 1991.[1] [2] It was their second album for Alligator Records and one of the label's best selling titles.[3] [4] The trio supported the album with a North American tour.[5] Hot Flash also served as the title of a 2008 documentary about the trio.[6]
The songs were written by the trio, with Gaye Adegbalola penning the more humorous ones.[7] Billy Branch contributed on harmonica. "Sloppy Drunk" is a cover of the Lucille Bogan song.[8] "Why Don't You Do Right?" is a version of the song made famous by Lil Green. "(No Need) Pissin' on a Skunk" lambasts a coworker.[8] "Dirty Sheets" is about the longings of women working in nursing homes and hotels.[9] "Torch Song #1 / Torch Song #2" is addressed to a dying friend.[10]
The Washington Post determined that "when the trio fails, it merely pushes the same naughty buttons it pushed last time around—buttons that, incidentally, work far better in concert than they do on record."[11] The Calgary Herald called the album "a roadhouse mentality urban blues collection." The New York Times wrote that "Saffire's raunchy blues extol the virtues of gratifying sex, nights on the town and the benefits of nonmonogamous relationships; the group's songs are laced with double-entendres and bawdy language."[12] The Pittsburgh Press noted that "the blues are usually not offered in such fine harmonies."[13]
AllMusic wrote: "Racy and sassy—and to some tastes cutesy—the album is a fun, free-thinking update of classic female blues, performed with gusto and verve."