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01 - Ana Popovic - Dance To The Rhythm - Dance To The Rhythm.flac 
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08 - Ana Popovic - Dance To The Rhythm - Soulution.flac 
09 - Ana Popovic - Dance To The Rhythm - Hottest Ticket In Town.flac 
10 - Ana Popovic - Dance To The Rhythm - Sisters And Brothers.flac 
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Exystence Review ---------------
Ana Popovic – Dance to the Rhythm (2025)
Filed Under: blues, rock, soul by exy — Leave a comment
September 28, 2025

By now, it is well-documented that Ana Popovic claims that her Fender Stratocaster saved her life.
Fighting breast cancer in 2022-2023, the singer/songwriter/guitarist contemplated giving up her career.
Yet, due to the insistence of her bassist and musical director Buthel Burns, she persevered, and after multiple chemotherapy treatments, she returned to recording and touring again.
Many felt that her 2023 Power was the best album of her career.
While she testified to the strength of her 1964 Fender Strat, she did less blistering shredding on Power, emphasizing the songs instead.
Her guitar skills are top-notch, and her voice has grown more soulful as she has returned with Dance to the Rhythm, while embracing R&B and soul more than blues rock.
Yes, she has toned down her legendary shredding even more this time.
This is a celebratory effort to bring a message of positivity and change.
You will be toe-tapping or moving other body parts throughout.

To better understand this shift, here’s what Popovic says, “People write to satisfy the critics, to cross over, to satisfy the ‘blues police,’ the ‘rock police,’ the ‘any other police.’
We write to accommodate our live show. To inspire the band. Because the live is where it’s at for us.
That’s my passion and that’s my quest in music.” Some of these ten songs are performed with her larger band, while others are rendered with a smaller unit.
Popovic plays acoustic guitar and slide guitar in addition to her customary Strat.
The core band includes Buthel on bass and background vocals, while Michele Papadia and Jeremy Thomas share keys, and Chris Coleman and Donnel Spencer share drum duties.

The groove-laden title track opens, a Tower of Power-like rave-up replete with a three-piece horn section (Jordan Carr on trumpet, Evan Knight on sax, and Brett Lamel on trombone).
Popovic’s economical guitar solo serves the song, which is an ideal rouser live.
The horn slathered relentless groove continues in “Worked Up,” with more fretwork on display.
The horn augmented band, along with background vocalist Colonia Calhoun Burns, delivers an inventive arrangement of Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” with Popovic unleashing fire on her axe.
Yet this interpretation may be a little overdone in comparison to the original.
The horns recede somewhat in the stomper “California Chase,” which features tasty keyboard work from Papadia.

“Hurt So Good” takes a more stripped-down route, beginning as a blues, but morphing into a head bobbing R&B tune, with tasteful guitar work.
Blaring horns and a syncopated, infectious rhythm infuse “Sho Nuf,”the perfect dance club tune, with Popovic launching a searing guitar outro.
Standout “Dwell on the Feeling” is a tender love ballad, with Popovic on acoustic and slide, as she slips into a bluesier mode in her guitar take while assisted by Burns on the backgrounds.
The rhythmic groove returns on the Latin percussion-infused “Soul’ ution,” another highly danceable tune. (The cha cha will do fine).
Interestingly, Popovic lets loose with her Strat, giving a glimpse of her trademark shredding.
Closer “Sisters and Brothers,” while uplifting, never really ratchets into a tight groove, like so many of these others., but she does turn the heat up on the guitar.

Popovic and Buthel met their objective of delivering songs prime for a live show. Rhythm and singalongs abound.
The hard core blues-rockers may be disappointed but as Popovic says, “you haven’t heard it all yet.” That statement seems an augur another forthcoming change on the next one.
— rockandbluesmuse.com