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█▓███ ARTIST..: Joss Stone ▐█▐
██▓██ TITLE...: The Soul Sessions ▐█▐
█▓██▓ LABEL...: S-Curve ▐█▐
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▒▒▒▓▒ RIP-DATE...: Feb-04-2004 STREET-DATE: Sep-16-2003 ▐█▐
▒░▒░░ RIPPER.....: Team-ICE SUPPLIER...: Team-ICE ▐█▐
░░▒░▒ TYPE.......: Album GENRE......: Soul ▐█▐
▒▒░▒░ TRACKS.....: 10 SiZE.......: 45,4 MB ▐█▐
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█▒▒▒▓ QUALITY....: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo ▐█▐
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█▓█▓█ URL........: http://www.s-curverecords.com/joss/ ▐█▐
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█▐01 █▐ The Chokin' Kind ▌█ 03:37▌█ ▐█▐
█▐02 █▐ Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin on Me?) ▌█ 04:20▌█ ▐█▐
█▐03 █▐ Fell In Love With A Boy ▌█ 03:39▌█ ▐█▐
█▐04 █▐ Victim Of A Foolish Heart ▌█ 05:32▌█ ▐█▐
█▐05 █▐ Dirty Man ▌█ 02:59▌█ ▐█▐
█▐06 █▐ Some Kind Of Wonderful ▌█ 03:56▌█ ▐█▐
█▐07 █▐ I've Fallen In Love With You ▌█ 04:29▌█ ▐█▐
█▐08 █▐ I Had A Dream ▌█ 03:01▌█ ▐█▐
█▐09 █▐ All The King's Horses ▌█ 03:04▌█ ▐█▐
█▐10 █▐ For The Love Of You (Pts 1&2) ▌█ 07:35▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐Q: She's 16 and British, what can she possibly know about singing ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐vintage American soul music? A: Enough to make you squirm, get off your▌█ ▐█▐
█▐ass, and dance close with anybody who'll have you. Joss Stone is a ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐young woman who, if you believe the story, was about to record her ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐wannabe pop smash debut and then be well on her way to becoming the ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐next Britney/Christina. Then she heard some vintage American Miami soul▌█ ▐█▐
█▐made by the likes of Latimore, Little Beaver, Betty Wright, Timmy ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Thomas, and the like, and genuine inspiration took hold. The result of ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐all this career changing (or diva postponement) is The Soul Sessions, a▌█ ▐█▐
█▐collection of ten badass soul classics recorded with all of the above ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐folks ù soul princess Betty Wright and S-Curve's Steve Greenberg ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐produced almost all of it in Miami, though a pair of tracks were ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐recorded in New York with R&B wunderkind Mike Mangini and a souled-out ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐cover of the White Stripes "Fell in Love With a Boy," guided by the ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Roots' ?uestlove (Ahmir Thompson) on the modern tip, was cut in Philly.▌█ ▐█▐
█▐These jams drip honey sweet and hard with tough, sexy soul, and Stone's▌█ ▐█▐
█▐voice is larger than life. It's true she's been tutored and mentored by▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Wright and her musical collaborators in the science of groove, but she ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐keeps it raw enough to be real. Her reading of Harlan Howard's "The ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Chokin' Kind" reveals that it should have been an R&B tune all along ù ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐check out Little Beaver's (Willie Hale) guitar solo. Her reading of ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Bobby Miller's "Dirty Man," a track associated with Wright, is gutsy ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐and completely believable, and the interplay between Latimore's piano ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐and Beaver's funky, shimmering guitaristry brings Stone's vocal down to▌█ ▐█▐
█▐street level. ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐For a woman as young as Stone to tackle Carla Thomas' "I've Fallen in ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Love With You" and Aretha Franklin's "All the King's Horses," not to ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐mention John Ellison's nugget "Some Kind of Wonderful," takes guts, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐chops, or a genuine delusional personality to pull off. Stone has the ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐former two. She has unique phrasing and a huge voice that accents, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐dips, and slips, never overworking a song or trying to bring attention ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐to itself via hollow acrobatics. The strings and funky backbeat ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐provided by Thompson on "I've Fallen in Love With You" are chilling in ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐the way they prod Stone to just spill a need out of her heart that one ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐would believe would be beyond her years. And speaking of Thompson, his ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐production of the Stripes tune is more than remarkable; it conveys Jack▌█ ▐█▐
█▐White's intent but in an entirely new language. The set closes with ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Stone's radical reread of the Isleys' "For the Love of You," a daunting▌█ ▐█▐
█▐and audacious task. The way she tackles this song, prodded only by ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Angelo Morris' keyboard whispering alongside her, is far from ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐reverential, but it is true, accurate, moving, and stunningly ù even ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐heartbreakingly ù beautiful. This is a debut that, along with those ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐fine practitioners in the nu-soul underground such as Peven Everett, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Julie Dexter, Yas-rah, Fertile Ground, and a few others, is solid proof▌█ ▐█▐
█▐that soul is alive and well. And perhaps, given her youth and stunning ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐looks, the perverse star-making machinery will use this unusual entry ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐into the marketplace to reinvestigate the wonders of timeless depth and▌█ ▐█▐
█▐vision inherent in soul and R&B that are far from exhausted, as this ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐record so convincingly proves. ù Thom Jurek ▌█ ▐█▐
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