Track Listing

1. Down in the Dumps
2. Million Dollar Secret
3. Independent Blues
4. Cold, Cold Feeling
5. Smokestack Lightning
6. Dirty No-Gooder's Blues
7. My Baby Treats Me Like a Stepchild
8. You Can't Have My Monkey
9. Bad Avenue
10. Love Don't Love Nobody
11. Wild About You
12. Voodoo Blues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92570 in Music
• Released on: 1995-03-21
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Powerful blues from a lady who left us too early.
Valerie Wellington was one of the most powerful performers I have ever seen in person. Million Dollar Secret captures a great deal of her power. Wellington was a blend that ranged from Bessie Smith to Koko Taylor. Unfortunately we lost this dynamic performer when she died in 1991 at the young age of 31. Anyone who truly loves the power of the blues should add this to their collection as a memoir of a great blues artist. Who knows how much greater she could have become.

I can't believe this is her only solo album!
Valerie Wellington is up there with established "belt it out blues" women such as Koko Taylor and Etta James. Anyone will appreciate her raw (raw and gritty!) talent, but this is a must have for serious blues fans. This is a hard rocking album, and every track thoroughly enjoyable.

there are other recordings
Million Dollar Secret is the only thing we have to showcase Valerie's talent and it is solid good. Valerie had recorded 3 albums that I knew of. 2 were in production at the time of her death. Her bandmates decided not to release them because they weren't finished. Unfortunately, Million Dollar Secret, as good as it is, barely covers Val's talent as anyone who's ever seen her live can attest to. I wish whatever was recorded, whoever recorded it, would release what's left. I really miss her.