“When I’m singing blues,” Etta James once said, “I’m singing life.” Hers was a dif­fi­cult life. The leg­endary singer, who died this morn­ing at the age of 73 after a long strug­gle with leukemia, was born Jame­set­ta Hawkins on Jan­u­ary 25, 1938, to an unwed 14-year-old girl, and her life was marked by drug addic­tion … Con­tin­ue read­ing Remem­ber­ing the Soul­ful Etta James