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Rick James - Deeper Still
RiPPER..: -=Team OSC=- GENRE......: R&B
LABEL...: Stone City Records SCENE DATE.: 05/15/2007
bITRATE.: VBR/44.1 STORE DATE.: 05/15/2007
ENCODER.: Lame 3.97 TRACKS.....: 11
SiZE....: 75,9 MB SOURCE.....: CDDA
01 Deeper Still 04:16
02 Guinnevere 05:16
03 Stop It 04:41
04 Taste 04:30
05 Stroke 04:25
06 Do You Wanna Play 05:18
07 Not Alone 03:52
08 Sapphire 05:08
09 Maybe 05:40
10 Secrets 04:49
11 Funk Wit Me 04:33
Total Playtime: 52:28
Release Notes:
At the time of his death in 2004, the indomitable Rick
James was in the process of unleashing yet another wave
of freakiness on the general populace. He had penned
10 songs, half of what he hoped would become a
double-disc set, and holed himself up in his L.A. home
studio to record them. Though the project never came to
fruition as he envisioned it, Deeper Still culls the
tracks he had in the can plus a single cover, and it
opens wide a window on the freak-master's mindset in his
final days. The gentle title song swerves away from empty
come-ons and excessive suavity to celebrate romance and
(of all things) commitment, and a later track, "Sapphire,"
again dispenses with signature slinkiness in favor of
affirmation--here, strong black women see some love.
Evidence of James's fabled "sex, drugs, and funk & soul"
lifestyle peek through on the steamy "Do You Want to Play"
and the autobiographical cuts "Taste" and "Stroke," but
mostly Deeper Still represents a mellowing.