Hush! (Ana Popović album) explained

Hush!
Type:	studio
Artist:	Ana Popović
Cover:	Ana Popović - Hush!.jpg
Released:	January 22, 2001^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4]
Recorded:	October and November, 2000
Genre:	Blues^[5]
Length:	53:50^[6]
Label:	Ruf
Producer:	Jim Gaines
Next Title:	Comfort to the Soul
Next Year:	2003

Hush! is Ana Popović's debut solo studio album, released on January 22, 2001 on Ruf Records. While studying at Utrecht Conservatory of Music in the Netherlands, she formed the Ana Popović Band to pay tuition costs. The band became popular in the Dutch and German music scenes, which brought her a record deal with Ruf Records, and brought her to Memphis in 2000 to record Hush!, named after her first band in Serbia, Hush.^[7] One track on the album, "Bring Your Fine Self Home", features a duet with Bernard Allison, son of blues great Luther Allison.^[8]

Track list

Personnel

Musicians

• Ana Popović – vocals, guitar, rhythm guitar, slide guitar
• Jack Holder – guitar, rhythm guitar
• William Lee Ellis – acoustic guitar
• Dave Smith – bass
• Bernard Allison – vocals (track 11)
• Jacqueline Johnson – background vocals
• Steve Mergen – drums
• Steve Potts – drums
• Sam Shoup – upright bass
• Jim Spake – saxophone
• Scott Thompson – trumpet
• Ernest Williamson – organ, piano

Production^{[9] [10]}

• Jim Gaines – production and mixing in Memphis
• Brad Blackwood – mastering
• John Hampton – mixing
• Dawn Hopkins – engineering

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography Ana Popovich . Ruf Records Germany . March 15, 2017.
2. Web site: Ana Popovic – License To Steal . I Love Blues Guitar . March 15, 2017.
3. Web site: Hush – Ana Popovic . SP-Musik.de . German . March 15, 2017.
4. Web site: Hush! . Public . Greek . March 15, 2017.
5. Web site: Ana Popovic . Billboard Biography . March 15, 2017.
6. Web site: Hush! – Ana Popovic . AllMusic . March 15, 2017.
7. Web site: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Ana Popovic . American Blues Scene . May 10, 2017 . September 23, 2018 . Nash, JD.
8. Web site: Ana Popovic . All About Blues Music . September 23, 2018.
9. Web site: Hush! – Ana Popovic Credits . AllMusic . March 15, 2017.
10. Web site: Hush! . Ruf Records Shop . March 15, 2017.