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| 3.0 good | Iai EMERITUS | December 13th 09 |
Authentic as hell, which is a hell of an achievement for a recording in 2009 that is so heavily influenced by gospel, and so openly religious. The singer sounds a hell of a lot like James Brown (imagine how shocked I was when I found out it was a woman!) and the music comes served deep-fried straight from the swinging, raucous Southern church you always hoped would exist.
Still, for such a convincing record, the one thing it doesn't convince me is whether or not it's special. When hearing a record as openly revivalist and old-fashioned as this, the question I automatically ask myself is whether anyone would still be listening to it in 2009 if it actually had been released in the mid-60s. I don't think the answer is a definite no, but it's seriously doubtful. That shouldn't temper my enjoyment of the record, and I don't think it does - it's just a marker of whereabouts this record sits in the broad spectrum of things. Definitely worth hearing, though; it might not do anything new but it does it very, very well.
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