Robert and Rory, co-owners of the Rrazz Room, are paying homage to the women
who helped shape popular music in the 1960's and break open the barriers in
a largely all-male music industry. Melba Moore, Chris Clark, Darlene Love,
and Petula Clark have appeared recently and the audiences lap up another
chance to hear musical memories from a more innocent, wistful age. Martha
Reeves carved a very large niche for herself with a string of megahits that
identify the era and she carries those golden oldies in the large repertoire
bag that comprises a Martha Reeves show.

She had the audience up and dancing on many of those popular hits as well as
singing background vocals. Motown performers were groomed extensively and
put out on the road on endless grueling tour schedules where they learned
the art of entertaining. Reeves has honed her craft and displays it all
during her 90-minute set. She's funny, gracious, sassy and spontaneous.
'Nowhere to Run', 'Dancing in the Street', 'Heat Wave' and 'Jimmy Mack' may
what people come to hear, but for this critic, it was the rest of Martha's
material that made the evening so satisfying.

With her gospel beginnings, Reeves easily translated her vocals to R&B, soul
and blues. The Motown sound was a natural for her abilities and today she
sings with a raspy, husky alto. The b-side Holland-Dozier-Holland ballads
'Love Makes Me Do Foolish Things' and ' A Love Like Yours (Don't Come
Knocking Everyday)' become timeless treasures with Reeve's assured delivery.
Pulling from an combination of styles, Reeves sang a smartly arranged pop
medley of 'Call Me'/'The Look of Love'/'Boy from Ipanema', banged out 'I'm
Ready for Love', then stopped the  show with the soul standard 'My Baby
Loves Me'.  She also adds to the distinguished list of great jazz performers
who've sang Duke Ellington's haunting 'Mood Indigo'.

Martha Reeves has had a storied career full of highs and lows, great
successes to overlooked potential - but she's still here. At 67, this  Rock
and Roll Hall of fame inductee shows little signs of slowing down. She
doesn't take her success for granted, is still creating original material
(she penned 8 out of 10 tunes for her self-produced 2004 CD "Home to You"),
and knows how to put on a grand show.

– Steve Murray, Cabaret Scenes Magazine