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Mandi

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About Me

i am a vocalist in the atlanta area specializing in soul and blues. i believe that hard work and determination are the keys to success. but in order to move people, you've gotta find the music somewhere deep within you. and to be able to relate to others, you've gotta feel them somewhere on the inside too. so that's where i search for the music and that's where i pull my voice and my energy from. and that's why i think music is the best way to connect with other people, because it addresses their soul. i am currently singing with the Larry Griffith Band, am doing some solo work and am a member of the recently formed Swamp Angels. check out my bands' sites:
http://www.myspace.com/mandistrachotamusic
http://www.myspace.com/larrygriffithband
http://www.myspace.com/angelsoftheswamp

Song list:


Al Green For the Good Times
Al Green Let's Stay together
Alannah Myles Black Velvet
Alberta Adams Messin’ Around With the Blues
Alicia Bridges I Love the Nightlife
Alicia Keys If I Aint Got U
Alicia Keys No One
Alicia Keys You Don't Know My Name
Amy Winehouse Rehab
Amy Winehouse Tears Dry On Their Own
Amy WInehouse Valerie
Anita Baker Same Ol’ Love
Anita Baker Sweet Love
Ann Peebles Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home
Ann Peebles I Can't Stand the Rain
Aretha Franklin Baby I Love You
Aretha Franklin Chain of Fools
Aretha Franklin Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
Aretha Franklin Dr. Feelgood
Aretha Franklin Natural Woman
Aretha Franklin Never Loved A Man
Aretha Franklin Respect
Atlantic Starr Always
BB King Everyday I Have the Blues
BB King Thrill is Gone
Barbara Acklin Am I the Same Girl
Bertha “Chippie” Hill Some Cold Rainy Day
Bessie Smith ’Lectric Chair
Bessie Smith Me and My Gin
Bessie Smith T’aint Nobody’s Business
Betty James I’m a Little Mixed Up
Betty Wright Clean Up Woman
Big Al Carson Black Drawers
Big Mama ThorntonHound Dog
Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine
Bill Withers Grandma’s Hands
Bill Withers Use Me
Bill Withers Who Is He and What Is He To You
Black Crowes Hard To Handle
Black Crowes Seeing Things
Blue Lu Barker Don’t You Make Me High
Bob Dylan Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Bonnie Raitt I Can’t Make You Love Me
Bonnie Raitt Love Me Like A Man
Bonnie Raitt Something to Talk About
Bonnie Raitt Women Be Wise
Brook Benton Rainy Night In Georgia
CCR Proud Mary
Chaka Khan Ain’t Nobody
Chaka Khan Sweet Thing
Chaka Khan Tell Me Something Good
Cyndi Lauper Time After Time
Commodores Easy
Debra Laws Very Special
Denise Lasalle Your Husband Is Cheatin On Us
Deniece Williams Let's Hear It For the Boy
Dinah Washington Evil Gal Blues
Dinah Washington Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
The Dixie Cups Chapel of Love
Donna Hightower I Ain’t In the Mood
Donna Summer Last Dance
Donna Summer She Works Hard for the Money
Donny Hathaway/Roberta Flack Closer I Get To You
Doris Troy Just One Look
Dorothy Moore Misty Blue
Dr. John Ate Up the Apple Tree
The Drifters Stand By Me
The Drifters Under the Boardwalk
Dusty Springfield Son Of A Preacher Man
Eagles Take It To the Limit
Elmore James Dust My Broom
Elmore James It Hurts Me Too
Elmore James Sho Nuff I Do
Elmore James Sky Is Cryin’
Elvis Presley Blue Christmas
The Emotions Best of My Love
Erykah Badu Tyrone
Esther Phillips Sit Back Down
Etta James At Last
Etta James Damn Your Eyes
Etta James In the Basement
Etta James Rather Go Blind
Etta James Rock Me Baby
Etta James Sunday Kind of Love
Etta James W.O.M.A.N.
Evelyn “Champagne” King Love Come Down
Fleetwood Mac Dreams
Fleetwood Mac Rhiannon
Freda Payne Band of Gold
Georgia White Hot Nuts
Georgia White I’ll Keep Sittin On It (If I Can’t Sell It)
Gladys Hill Please Don’t Touch My Bowl
Gladys Knight The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
Gladys Knight Hear It Through the Grapevine
Gladys Knight If I Were Your Woman
Gladys Knight Midnight Train to Georgia
Gladys Knight Neither One of Us
Gladys Knight Use My Imagination
Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive
Hall & Oates Sara Smile
Honey Cone Want Ads
Howlin’ Wolf Wang Dang Doodle
Ike & Tina Turner 3 O’Clock in the Morning
Ike & Tina Turner The Hunter
The Impressions People Get Ready
India Arie Beautiful
India Arie Video
Irma Thomas You Can Have My Husband
Isley Brothers Living for the Love of You
Jackie Wilson Higher & Higher
Jackson 5 Blame It On The Boogie
Jackson 5 Rockin’ Robin
James Brown Try Me
James Taylor How Sweet It Is
Janis Joplin Me & Bobby McGee
Janis Joplin Mercedes Benz
Jean Knight Mr. Big Stuff
Jimmy Reed Baby What You Want Me To Do
Jimmy Reed Bright Lights, Big City
Jimmy Reed Honest I Do
Jocelyn Brown Somebody Else’s Guy
Johnny Cash Jackson
Journey Don’t Stop Believin’
Journey Open Arms
Katrina & the Waves Walking On Sunshine
King Floyd Groove Me
Koko Taylor Hey Bartender
Koko Taylor Sure Had a Wonderful Time Last Night
Lauryn Hill Doo Wop (That Thing)
Lauryn Hill The Sweetest Thing
Linda Ronstadt Blue Bayou
Little Walter Mean Old World
Lonnie Johnson Haunted House
Louis Jordan Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Luther Ingram If Lovin You is Wrong
Mabel John No Matter How She Done It
Magic Sam 21 Days
Mama Cass Elliot Dream a Little Dream
Marcia Griffiths Electric Slide
Martha&Vandellas Heatwave
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Marvin Gaye & Tammi TerrellAin't Nothin' Like the Real Thing
Marvin Gaye What's Goin On
Mary Wells My Guy
Michael Jackson The Way You Make Me Feel
Mother’s Finest Baby Love
Mother's Finest Thank You For the Love
Nancy Sinatra These Boots Are Made For Walkin’
Norah Jones Come Away With Me
Oleta Adams Get Here
Otis Redding Dock Of The Bay
Otis Redding These Arms Of Mine
Otis Redding Try a Little Tenderness
Pat Benetar Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Patsy Cline Crazy
Patsy Cline I Fall To Pieces
Patsy Cline Lovesick Blues
Patsy Cline She’s Got You
Patsy Cline Walkin’ After Midnight
Pointer Sisters Fire
Pointer Sisters He's So Shy
Prince Do Me Baby
Prince Kiss
Prince Nothing Compares To You
Ray Charles Ain’t That Love
Ray Charles Come Back, Baby
Ray Charles Georgia
Ray Price For The Good Times
Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Loving Feeling
Rose Royce Car Wash
Rose Royce Goin' Down
Rose Royce I Wanna Get Next To You
Rosetta Howard If You’re a Viper
Rufus & Chaka Khan Stop On By
Sade Your Love Is King
Sam Cooke (Ain’t That) Good News
Sam Cooke A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke Bring It On Home
Sam Cooke Get Yourself Another Fool
Sam Cooke Summertime
Sam Cooke You Send Me
Shalamar A Night To Remember
Sheryl Crow All I Wanna Do
The Shirelles Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Slim Harpo I Need Money
Sly & the Family Stone If You Want Me To Stay
Smokey Robinson Cruisin’
Smokey Robinson Ooo Baby Baby
Smokey Robinson Tracks of My Tears
Smokey Robinson You Really Got a Hold on Me
Sonny Landreth Congo Square
The Staple Singers Respect Yourself
Stevie Ray Vaughn Pride And Joy
Stevie Wonder All in Love is Fair
Stevie Wonder Living For The City
Stevie Wonder A Place In the Sun
Stevie Wonder Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Stevie Wonder Sunshine Of my Life
Stevie Wonder Superstition
T-Bone Walker Stormy Monday
Taj Mahal Fishin’ Blues
Taste of Honey Boogie Oogie Oogie
Temptations Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Temptations Way U Do Thigs U Do
Temptations Just My Imagination
Theodis Ealey Reconsider Baby
Thelma Houston Don’t Leave Me This Way
Tina Turner I Can’t Stand the Rain
Tower of Power Don't Change Horses
Tracy Chapman Give Me One Reason
Victoria Spivey Black Snake Swing
Willie MacTell Rough Alley Blues
Willie Nelson Blue Skies
ZZ Hill Down Home Blues

My Blog

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