1. Windy City Burner - written by Vasti Jackson & Monica Parker
2. California Blues - written by Monica Parker
3. Come To Mama -
4.. Love & Happiness - written by Al Green
5. I Am A Woman! - written by Vasti Jackson
6. Early In The Morning - written by Johnny Mars
7. Behind My Back - written by Danny Beconcini & Monica Parker
8. Baby Boomer -written by Ron E. Beck & Monica Parker
9. Pussycat Moan - written by Katie Webster
10. I Don't Care No More -
11. Its' A New Day - written by James Brown
12. Get Out My Way - written by Monica Parker
13. Precious Lord Take My Hand - written by Thomas Dorsey

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Producers: Monica Parker, Danny "B" Beconcini, Ron E. Beck and Vasti Jackson

Executive Producer: Monica Parker
Publishing: Sismon Music, BMI Affiliate
Mo Muscle Records & Entertainment released in 1995

This debut CD "Get Out My Way" is where it all started in 1994. Sista Monica Parker took her band into the studio to produce a corporate CD at Music Annex in Menlo Park, California in late 1994. She had been only performing for two years in the Bay Area starting August 20, 1992. However, in that short period of time Sista Monica had stood in for the legend Etta James, performed at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival and was a phenomenmon in the Santa Cruz and Bay Area of California. She was frequently compared in the beginning to her idols Etta James, Katie Webster and Koko Taylor. As executive producer, she figured out after a couple of recording sessions that the costs of musicians, recording, mixing and mastering was too much for merely a corporate CD to get gigs. She told the band to get serious, start writing and get ready to tour on the CD project. Danny B. her piano collaborated and wrote "Behind My Back" and Ron E. Beck her drummer wrote "Baby Boomer". She set the tone and affirmed "We are going around the world on this first CD. Sista Monica and band started making lots of noise in Holland -The Netherlands at the Blues Estafette Festival and became a huge hit in Europe. So much so that they invited her and her band to come back again and again until she made a tour of 12 states in The Netherlands. She has toured Turkey, Romania, Switzerland, Norway, Canada, Mexico City and many states in the USA.

{She visited list the names of places and place photos on Danny B,
Noel and others here.}

The title track was written on highway 17 coming from sound check at the Catalyst located in
Santa Cruz, California. It was a direct result of the frustration she felt when independent blues record label passed her over for record deals. Parker continued her work as an engineering recruiting consultant in the Silicon Valley for companies such as Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard by day, earning enough money to produce this debut CD. Disappointed by the music business and not getting a record deal from Bruce Iglauer at Alligator Records or Blind Pig Records, Sista Monica couldn't wait much longer. She parlayed her corporate and business skills into starting and operating her own independent record and entertainment company - Mo Muscle Records & Entertainment located in Santa Cruz, California.

Guests on the CD include; Johnny Mars from London, Skylark bass player with the Doobie Brothers, Vasti Jackson - then the musical director for Katie Webster, Dan Targonowski on piano
Musical director for Diane Reeves and Herman Collins on drums - the drummer for Dr. John. The band for the Music Annex recording was Danny "B" piano and Hammond B3 organ, and co-producer, Ron E. Beck -drummer formerly of "Tower of Power", Noel Catura on Tenor Saxophone, Skylark on Bass and Michael Osborn on lead and rhythm guitar, then lead vocals
Sista Monica Parker. Shiela Truso, Brenda Roy - one of the Hawkins Singers, Tony Lindsay "now lead singer for "Santana" along with Ron E. Beck were the background singers on the CD.

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