Irma Thomas

Person / b. 1941 / United States

southern soul

Biography

Irma Thomas is an American singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans".

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Analysed songs (2)

I Need Your Love So Bad

Irma Thomas

A slow-burning blues-soul plea built almost entirely around a single confession of need. Thomas takes a well-worn blues standard…

romantic longing vulnerability desperation

Wish Someone Would Care

Irma Thomas

A solitary meditation on emotional exhaustion and the mask of composure, sung by a woman taking stock of her life and finding no…

isolation emotional labor of appearing fine self-reckoning