EDITORIAL REVIEWS Men Are Like Street Cars - Women Blues Singers by Various Artists When sold by .com this product will be manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. .com s standard return policy will apply. .COM There s no way you can squeeze four decades worth of music onto two CDs and make it exhaustive nonetheless Men Are Like Streetcars provides an overview of an important and vibrant subgenre within the blues: female blues singers. This CD is an excellent sample of some of the blues greatest divas from pioneer belters like Billie Holiday and Victoria Spivey to guitarist Memphis Minnie who was more than capable of keeping up with the boys to reigning queens like Koko Taylor and Etta James who have continued recording and performing well into the 90s. Other highlights include Big Mama Thornton s Hound Dog Margie Day s Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy and Irma Thomas s Good to Me. --Genevieve Williams