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raphael saadiq - stone rollin' - columbia - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock - Pop

1. Heart Attack
2. Go To Hell
3. Radio
4. Over You
5. Stone Rollin'
6. Day Dreams
7. Movin' Down The Line
8. Just Don't
9. Good Man
10. The Answer

On 2008's The Way I See It, former Tony! Toni! Toné! frontman Raphael Saadiq did a spot-on impression of Motown circa 1965, defying retro-soul's bias for Seventies babymaking mush. Some have called Stone Rollin' his Electric Ladyland, and like the Hendrix classic, it's an inspired free-for-all, moving backward and forward from his beloved mid-Sixties — from girl-crazy Chuck Berry to politicized Stevie. Saadiq holds it together with tight songwriting, and he ups the urgency with garage-rock production that suggests a White Stripes fan.