Search - Sam Dees :: Heritage of a Black Man

A Classic Album

roy | Stalybridge | 04/23/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'm both proud but surprised to be the first to be reviewing a truly great albumI first heard this by chance in a soul music shop and had to ask who it was. It was someone I'd never heard ofThese are apparently demos for other artists - several are for female singers and so we have the unusual sound of a guy singing a girls' song - but it works tremendously wellSo often you read about undiscovered masterpieces and generally speaking they turn out to be a disappointment. This is a notable exception. It's hard to place this in terms of genre because he is very much his own man, so I would say it is very much an album literally full of music (count the tracks) which all sound like classic soul cutsI have to say, however, that the title track is the only cut I don't like and seems to these ears at least out of keeping with the rest of the songsListen to the samples - I can't believe that this music is so obscure. The album is a classic"