Coco By Request (2011)
Collette isn’t easy to describe or place into a category, and to an artist like her, that’s probably a compliment. Marching to the beat of her own drum since the early years (she was a part of jazz and marching bands in her native South Carolina), Collette claims influences from across genres and spectrums (Cher, […]
Love Infinity (2011)
Some people keep expecting songs about that many splendored thing called love to run their course and play out. However, artists continue looking for different ways to express those ancient feelings, tell those old stories and resolve the eternal conflicts that always arise whenever we turn to affairs of the heart. Cynics who declare that […]
MusiqintheMagiq (2011)
With singles and ringtones dominating the market over the last several years, it hasn’t been an album game for a long time; so, artists are no longer expected to deliver whole albums of brilliance. Much like the 50s and early 60s halcyon days of hit 45s and afterthought albums loaded with uninspired filler, if customers […]
Reaching for the Sky / Crosswinds (reissue) (2011)
After over a decade of toiling as a member of Michael Zager’s Moon Band and as a solo artist on the small Bang Records label, in 1977 Peabo Bryson signed with industry giant Capitol Records and formally introduced the soul music to one of its future leading romantic men. With good looks and a deep, […]
Who Ordered the Waffle? (2011)
Bump Kitchen’s Who Ordered The Waffle? is an album tailor made for musicians and serious fans of funk music. Casual fans might not care about hearing a band where the musicians demand equal billing with the vocalist. And that’s not because lead singer Tony Harper can’t hold his own. Nothing can be further from the […]
Kelly (2011)
After an eight-year hiatus from R&B, Kelly Price returns with a set that is arguably her best since her 1998 debut, Soul of a Woman. Kelly, Price’s sixth studio album, comes nearly a year after a little nugget of a song called “Tired” began to make its way across the internet and eventually climbed the […]
With Humility (2011)
When an artist such as Elbertina “Twinkie” Clark uses the ultra modern production tool like auto tune – which she employs on her new album With Humility – it’s bound to raise a few eyebrows. After all, Clark is the daughter of legendary choir leader and spiritual leader Mattie Moss Clark and her uncle is Bill Moss […]
Stone Rollin’ (2011)
With the era of Toni, Tony, Tone! lightyears behind him, Raphael Saadiq has retooled himself into a 21st century ambassador of sweet soul music. While he could have slipped into a familiar mode of reinvigorating sexy urban R&B that defined much of the 1990s sound, the talented songwriter/producer/singer felt more comfortable digging through the dusty […]
State Cows (2011)
It is quite an honor for a band to earn complimentary comparisons with the rock/jazz fusion band Steely Dan. Years of gigging as a Steely Dan cover band in the college town of Umeå, Sweden has allowed State Cows to become beneficiaries of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s ooze. When you take a good listen […]
Between You and I (2011)
Weezie Productions is proudly celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2011. This self-contained company which houses singer/songwriter, DJ and founder Donald Sheffey declares the sole purpose of R&B is “to soothe the soul, not abuse the mind and heart.” With six recordings, including one remix project and a Christmas single to his credit, Sheffey has focused […]
