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Joss Stone - The Soul
Sessions (S-Curve) Joss Stone has a very powerful voice. Let me tell you about Lisa Stansfield. Like Joss Stone, Lisa Stansfield is from England, and has been compared favorably (or favourably, if you're so inclined) to many of the great soul singers of the 1960s. Now...I grew up around Detroit, and to be mentioned favorably in the same sentence with, say, Aretha Franklin...well, that's a high honor, indeed. Lisa Stansfield, In my humble opinion, is worthy of such a comparison, unlike some other singers I've listened to lately, and whose recent release I downloaded from MusicMatch. What is euphemistically called "blue-eyed soul" is a tightrope act. Lisa Stansfield is able to pull it off. If she were singing, for example, "Fell In Love With A Boy," the single from Ms. Stone's album, the word "misleading" wouldn't sound like "misleating."
Ms. Stone's record-company
website says they put this album together in four days with help from some
heavyweights of the Miami Soul scene - "The 'Clean Up Woman,' Miss Betty
Wright, Timmy 'Why Can't We Live Together' Thomas, Willie 'Little Beaver'
Hale, and Latimore, whose single Ms. Stone could have stayed in England - and learned blue-eyed soul from one of the masters. "Some Kind of Wonderful" is the best cut on this disc. I went ahead and put that one in my mix directory. Did I tell you about the album I bought recently on-line, and didn't bother to burn it to a CD?
- Doug Boynton |
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One-half microphone (out of four)