Track Listings (13) - Disc #1| All Artists: Toshi Reagon Title: Righteous Ones Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Razor & Tie Original Release Date: 9/14/1999 Release Date: 9/14/1999 Genres: Blues, Folk, International Music, Jazz, Pop, R&B Styles: Traditional Blues, Traditional Folk, Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriters, Soul Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 793018283922, 829410315364 |
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For those who know her through previous recordings or as the daughter of Bernice Johnson Reagon (of Sweet Honey in the Rock), Toshi has a shock or two in store. Her previously acoustic blues- and gospel-based work has only... more » |
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Amazon.com For those who know her through previous recordings or as the daughter of Bernice Johnson Reagon (of Sweet Honey in the Rock), Toshi has a shock or two in store. Her previously acoustic blues- and gospel-based work has only hinted at the muscular rock and frenzied funk of her fourth and most freewheeling release. Her musical touchstones now include Talking Book-era Stevie Wonder, Prince, Rufus, and Living Colour at their most raging. The modern gospel intro to "Real Love," Toshi's first recording with Sweet Honey, quickly detonates into full fury and "Drive It Home," with its uninhibited sexuality, comes on like Chaka Kahn fronting Lenny Kravitz's band. Reagon tends to mix her metaphors ("I'm just a little bit corny / Smiling like a baby with no troubles rumbling / And all cards on the table"), but musical and lyrical spontaneity this celebratory and emotionally wild is as hard to fault as it is to resist. --Roy Kasten Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsA Masterpiece. Jonathan Lyness | New York, NY United States | 07/11/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "I don't have enough words to communicate to you the energy, craft and passion that Toshi Reagon puts into this album. It's one of the best I've heard in the last several years -- the range of genres she builds upon is breathtaking, mixing rock, blues, gospel, 70s soul, and just about everything else. Her songwriting and performances are both moving on an emotional level, and high-energy enough to get your feet moving too! "Real Love" is an immediate standout, but virtually every song here has something to recommend it. Those who know about this album or who have caught her live are lucky indeed." The Righteous Ones Will Not Bore You Jonathan Lyness | 05/08/2000 (4 out of 5 stars) "I heard this album palying in the background at my local Silver Platters. I had to have it. "Real Love" builds slowly, and you know something big is going to happen. It does. Sweet Honey and the Rock kicks in and they are gone.Next up is "There Are" great vocal work and a great groove."Drive It Home Tonite", you may not want to play on a first date, but more like around the second or third one. This would make Tina or Chaka blush. With envy.Only a couple of clinkers, most notably the hyperfrenetic ending of "Like it That way". But she more than makes up for it on the bittersweet "Yes It was"And all that happens on the first half of the album.With as much genre-crossing blues/folk/gospel/rock as she does, Toshi Reagon has created a album that will appeal to a broad variety of tastes. And hopefully find some airplay as well. Highly recommended." A treasure for those who love contemporary music rwsandqmi | Suitland, MD USA | 04/22/2000 (4 out of 5 stars) "Toshi Reagon is the daughter of Bernice Reagon Johnson, the co-founder and spiritual leader of Sweet Honey in the Rock, the all female, blues, gospel, soul, roots, rock, a capella group based in DC. Toshi's second release, "The Righteous Ones" is very much a music lover's kind of music - smart, well composed, well produced, unpredictable, thoughtful and funky."
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