She’s as much a singer/songwriter in the Dusty Springfield and Janis Joplin mode as blues artist, but you’ll kick yourself if you don’t pick up this disc.

Treasa LeVasseur combines a wonderful, early jazz vocal quality with a shredding set of pipes she can turn on -- a high-octane Susan Tedeschi -- whenever she needs them. It’s a stunning weapon that could stand on its own even without the lush, vibrant recording, production and arrangement of this highly heartfelt disc.

It’s all combined with some lovely songwriting about the usual important things: relationships, relationship and... you get the point.

It’s all pretty impressive stuff, and when you combine it with some worthy, worthy soul that is both restrained in its vocal gyrations yet powerful, it’s quite a combo.

In typically modern style, there’s nothing organic about this one, however rootsy it is; producer David Baxter and engineer James Pail have done a masterful job of getting some pretty complex arrangements, with a lot of wall-of-sound stuff going on, adding to the gospel-funk-soul proceedings.

There are occasional dabbles in emotional frailty, rocky brashness, and .....just about every other way there is to admit relationships with other people keep our heads half twisted off half the time. Driven by Levasseur’s wonderful vocal delivery this is damn cool reminder of the humility that comes in admitting we ‘re all works in progress.