''Hush!'' is Ana Popović's debut solo studio album, released on January 22, 2001 on

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. While studying at Utrecht Conservatory of Music in the Netherlands, she formed the Ana Popović Band to pay tuition costs. The band became popular in the Dutch and German music scenes, which brought her a record deal with Ruf Records, and brought her to Memphis in 2000 to record ''Hush!'', named after her first band in Serbia, Hush. One track on the album, "Bring Your Fine Self Home", features a duet with

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, son of blues great

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Track list

Personnel

Musicians * Ana Popović – vocals, guitar, rhythm guitar, slide guitar * Jack Holder – guitar, rhythm guitar * William Lee Ellis – acoustic guitar * Dave Smith – bass *

– vocals (track 11) * Jacqueline Johnson – background vocals * Steve Mergen – drums * Steve Potts – drums * Sam Shoup – upright bass * Jim Spake – saxophone * Scott Thompson – trumpet * Ernest Williamson – organ, piano Production * Jim Gaines – production and mixing in Memphis * Brad Blackwood – mastering *

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– mixing * Dawn Hopkins – engineering

References

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