| James, Jose / Lean On Me |
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| Album: | Lean On Me | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | James, Jose | Added: | 07/2019 | |
| Label: | Blue Note Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2019-07-23 | Pull Date: | 2019-09-24 |
| Week Ending: | 8 Sep | 25 Aug | 28 Jul |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 06, 2019: | KZSU Time Traveler Lean On Me | 3. | Jul 26, 2019: | KZSU Time Traveler Lean On Me | |
| 2. | Aug 23, 2019: | Butter and Jams Kissing My Love | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Be Sharp Reviewed 2019-07-07 | ||
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OLD-SCHOOL R&B/SOUL Straight-forward and faithful covers of a dozen songs by Bill Withers. Many of these tunes are quite well known; big hits mainly from the 1970s. Jose James has a good, strong singing voice, and the record is full of strong performances throughout, well worth a spin. But it’s no real improvement on the originals. (Do go listen to Bill Withers right away if you haven’t.) Accompanied by guitar, bass & drums, horns, keys. No FCC issues 1 Mid-slow. Gentle & soulful. Nice, jazzy bridge on electric piano. (3:18) 2 Slow; actually a bit plodding. ‘comped by organ, piano, bass & drums. (4:13) 3 * Mid-tempo. Excellent male-female vocal duet. Kind of jazzy. (4:17) 4 Mid-slow, stately. Good vocal. Nice piano bridge. (5:00) 5 ** Mid-tempo. Funky instrumental opening. This one would work well on a jazz program. Good accompaniment including a cool flute solo. Bouncy & fun. (5:35) 6 * Mid-tempo. Syncopated. Good vocal. Organ, drum, and horns accompany. (4:43) 7 Mid-slow. Dark & sinister. Singer accuses his woman of cheating. A bit dull. (3:45) 8 Slow. Mellow, quiet ballad. Minimal guitar & drum. (6:29) 9 Mid-tempo. Smooth jazz including too-typical sax solo. Too smooth. Yuck. (4:26) 10 Very slow. Sad ex-love (breakup) song. (4:52) 11 Mid-tempo. Soulful singing. Funky accompaniment by full band. (3:21) 12 * Mid-tempo. Bitter, post-breakup song, but funky and groovy. Cool organ solo. (4:50) | ||
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