Listen carefully now: Marcia Ball ("long, tall Marcia Ball," as she's called) is possibly the best blues piano player you've never heard. If you know her and her music, you've been blessed. If you don't know her, Woozyfly gives you a glimpse of her hard stomp, swamp boogie blues. So get connected. It's time to receive communion.

This is a perfect advance view of a performer — and that is her strength — who is truly at the top of her very blues-soaked game. She's won multiple Grammy's for her blues music over the last five years, and if you don't know her it's time that changes.

Dial this one up, please. It's a right-on-target glimpse of her Louisiana boogie-stomp style of piano banging blues; for this especially, check out her performance of "Watermelon Time." It reels and rocks with the kind of jet-fueled blues that, ironically, makes you happy. That may be largely because you can't listen to Ball and stand still.

For a sample of her down-tempo, blues-lament style of singing, listen to "Where Do You Go," a song about poverty and homelessness, written with Tracy Nelson, that leaves the boogie at the door for the slow-time blues of Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta — just the blues, an important interlude between all the jumpin' and hollerin' and feeling of the spirit that take place at a typical Ball concert — which is like a Big Tent revival meeting where music is the bible, written by the likes of Professor Longhair and Dr. John and Irma Thomas, a holy trinity, no doubt.

These videos are classic Ball.  Take a seat at the Roland RD-700GX, make a few introductory remarks, cross those from-here-to-yonder legs, then ignite a blues frenzy.  A fire from the gods.

Watch the video and then go buy her latest release on Alligator Records, Peace, Love & BBQ. 

Peace, Love & BBQ (to be reviewed here later) takes Ball in the same direction she's been heading since her first record in 1978, Circuit Queen — blues queen, piano legend, boogie maven made manifest. 

Crawl in under the tent, at your own risk, because the blues — Marcia Ball's blues — can save you.