Artist..........: Shakura S'aida
Album...........: Brown Sugar
Genre...........: Blues
Label...........: Ruf Records
Catnr...........: RUF1155
Source..........: CDDA
Rip.Date........: 26-04-2010
Street.Date.....: 19-03-2010
Quality.........: VBR/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url.............: http://www.myspace.com/shakurasaida
Size............: 65.40MB
Song.Title :
01. Mr. Right 4:29
02. Walk Out That Door 4:31
03. Gonna Tell Me Baby 6:01
04. (Did It) Break Your Heart 4:55
05. Angels On High 5:16
06. Chasing The Sun 3:56
07. Missing The Good And The Bad 4:34
08. Sweet Spot 3:00
09. Brown Sugar 3:52
10. This Is Not A Love Song 5:06
11. Anti Love Song 4:14
12. Outskirts Of Memphis 5:07
Runtime: 55:01 min
Release.Info :
Whoa, whoa, WHOA!!! Yeah, Shakura S'Aida is a powerful fiery blues burndown on
one side and then the other but who on God's green Earth is this woman, Donna
Grantis, playing guitar?! Godammit, but she has muscle where a lot of male blue
fretbenders don't even possess bone! S'Aida and Grantis make up a forceful
slippin-in-thru-the-backdoor duo that's going to have mouths wagging, lips
gasping, and tongues ululating.
Brown Sugar is a strong release in an Etta James veinùlotsa stomp, shout, sass,
earth, and plenty of torchy balladryùbut S'Aida also possesses a Randy Crawford
tang, a little down on the ground Gladys (those who haven't heard Ms. Knight do
up the blues don't know what the hell they're missing), and a whole lot of her
own straight-up mode. Lance Anderson throws in a ton of no-nonsense organ
groove, lighting up the dark corners and tinting that small little touch of
sing-your-heart-out Sunday Go to Meeting church atmosphereàan A.M.E. chapel in
the heart of South Central, of course, not the uptight Tabernacle Of The
Doe-Eyed Lamb over in Pacific Palisades.
S'Aida backs up from nothing and grooves out her lines and soul-deep emotions
with ten shades of heart spiced first in ribald seduction and then wistful,
moon-eyed, lovelorn regret, later laying down the law and washing her hands of
all the good-for-nothing guys that came her way. More than once, I also heard
echoes of Street Life, the great Crusaders / Crawford hit. Shakura can trip on
down from a wail to a purr in a moment and hang you sideways on both. Grattis
then jumps to the planks and peals out raw intense asides atop foundation chord
work, blazing with a sinewy grit that'll sting the eyes and scratch the skin,
laying back ears fore and aft. Man, what a pair! There are a lot of really great
blues sides emerging right now, but this is one that ya gotta glom onto because
there's nothing else quite like it. These two invest so much in each other that,
especially in the closer, Outskirts of Memphis, they practically leap into one
another's skin.
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