So I was sent this mp3 of Joss Stone's new single off her third record-"Introducing Joss Stone" coming out March 20, 2007 AND I must admit, its pretty dope. The reason why-other than her amazing voice-Raphael Saadiq, her producer and one of my favorite music creators from Tony! Toni! Toné!, to Lucy Pearl (with Dawn Robinson from En Vogue and Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest) to his solo record "Instant Vintage". Check this out for all his other productions..his discography is pretty amazing.
Stone credits him as her main musical collaborator and producer, spending two months recording in the Bahamas together (not such a bad place to be), and then mixed it at Electric Lady across street from the Greya Papaya on 8th st.
Here's the track listing:
1. Change (Vinnie Jones Intro)
2. Girl They Won't Believe It
3. Headturner
4. Joss Stone - Tell Me Bout It.mp3
5. Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now feat. Common
6. Joss Stone - Put Your Hands On Me (Clean).mp3 [produced by Raphael Saadiq]
7. Music feat. Lauryn Hill
8. Arms Of My Baby
9. Bad Habit
10. Proper Nice
11. Bruised But Not Broken
12. Baby Baby Baby
13. What Were We Thinking
14. Music Outro
I've been seeing this trend to Doo-Wop and Motown which I LOVE being heralded in by British artists (mostly by American producers)...spitting it back at us nearly half a century later, adding to elements of modern funk, hip hop syncopating beats... Notables include The Pipettes, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, and most recently Joss Stone.
This is not to say that Joss Stone wasn't always thought of as the little white British girl with the big soulful pipes.. but up until this album, its been covers of other artists songs translated into her creamy, vanilla type pop aka "Fell In Love With A Boy" "Some Kind of Wonderful" etc with Ms Betty Wright at the helm shaping her vocal arrangements etc... Only difference is now I hear a little more of that NEW NEW old school R&B cropping up in the past 5 months (if that makes any sense to you).
Listen to her new tracks above to give you a feel for what I am talking about.
From Saadiq's solo record: Raphael Saadiq - Faithful.mp3
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