This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
WHERE YOU’LL FIND HER: Messing with the boys at the nearest blues bar.
FILE UNDER: The (Bonnie) Raitt stuff.
LOWDOWN: Debra Lyn Neufeld is not exactly a shrinking violet. At lest not on her debut disc Lock Up Your Songs. Gritty, gutsy, rough and ready, the singer-guitarist enlists a slate of local blues MVPs — including the tremendous Perpetrators — to back her up on a set of sizzling, smoking, sexy reminiscent of early Bonnie Raitt. Extra points for writing the tunes herself instead of covering some old bluesman’s classics — though, frankly, most of these dozen cuts are so strong and authentic-sounding you’d never know they weren’t straight from the Delta. Not bad for a woman who didn’t pick up a guitar until age 30.
