noun. 1 A person who concentrates primarily on a particular subject or activity; a person highly skilled in a specific and restricted field: he is a specialist in psychometric testing [with modifier]: the study was undertaken by a market-research specialist. Employers in the financial services sector are slow to recruit marketing candidates from outside their own specialist field. 2  Not long ago, technology recruitment was one of the most active, and profitable, specialist areas within the Irish recruitment market.
I'd Rather Go Blind is a bluessong written by Ellington Jordan[SUP] [/SUP]and co-credited to Billy Foster. It was first recorded by Etta Jamesin 1967, released in 1968, and has subsequently become regarded as a blues and soulclassic.
In the early '70s, James had fallen off the charts again, her addiction was raging, and she turned to petty crime to support her habit. She entered rehab on a court order in 1973, the same year she recorded a rock-oriented album, Only a Fool, with producer Gabriel Mekler.