Careless Loving is the debut album from Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 blues singer/musician Roxanne Potvin

Roxanne Potvin

Roxanne Potvin is a Canadian bilingual Gatineau, Quebec-based singer, blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. Born in Regina, where her father was a TV reporter for CBC, Potvin moved to the Ottawa area when she was two...

, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music

2003 in music

-January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...

). The album was recorded in Ottawa, Ontario. Potvin wrote six of the disc’s ten tracks. Covers included tunes usually associated with Buddy & Ella Johnson (I Don’t Want Nobody (To Have My Love But You)), Etta James

Etta James

Etta James is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues , rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer...

 (If I Can’t Have You), Ruth Brown

Ruth Brown

Ruth Brown was an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, composer and actress, noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and " He Treats Your Daughter Mean".For these...

 (Wild Wild Young Men), and Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...

’s risqué Long John Blues.

Track listing

1. I don't want nobody (to have my love but you)
2. Make me yours
3. Ain't it a shame
4. If I can't have you
5. Missing you
6. My book
7. Don't get close to me
8. Careless Loving
9. Wild wild young men
10. Long John Blues

Credits

• Roxanne Potvin
  Roxanne Potvin
  Roxanne Potvin is a Canadian bilingual Gatineau, Quebec-based singer, blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. Born in Regina, where her father was a TV reporter for CBC, Potvin moved to the Ottawa area when she was two...
  
  - Vocals, Electric Guitars
• Frank Scanga- Harmonica, Vocals on If I can't have you
• Johnny Russell - Piano and Organ
• Steve Trecarten - Saxophones
• Nigel Troop - Electric Bass
• Nathan Morris - Upright Bass
• Bill Brennan - Drums
• Ben Cooper - Acoustic guitar on Careless loving
• Michael Ball - Violin
• JW Jones - Electric Guitar on Long John Blues