Wake Up To John Legend & The roots

I am of course a big fan of The Roots. They turned me on to hip-hop and a whole load of new stuff - D'Angelo, Jill Scott, J Dilla, Erykah Badu and Robert Glasper among others.

And of course they guided me towards the best of hip-hop - ATCQ, Public Enemy, Gang Starr and Pete Rock and CL Smooth.

?uestlove has become a drumming hero of mine - effortlessly funky but capable of so much more.

John Legend however was someone on the outskirts of my musical knowledge and when I heard The Roots were doing something were doing something with him my interest picked up.

Wake Up is their collaboration and anyone who loves soul music should go out and buy a copy.

The Roots are in their element and lend an authentic backdrop to Legend's gospel tinged vocals on what is 99% a an album of excellent covers from Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Harold Melvin and Bill Withers. The stand out and rightly heavy 'I Can't Write Lefthanded' deserves to be a classic in its own right, while Shine and Hard Times press all the right commercial buttons.


A Grammy beckons we hope.

Wake Up - John Legend & The Roots

1.

Hard Times (Feat. Black Thought)

2.

Compared To What

3.

Wake Up Everybody (Feat. Common & Melanie Fiona)

4.

Our Generation (The Hope Of The World) [Feat. CL Smooth]

5.

Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude) [Feat. Malik Yusef]

6.

Little Ghetto Boy (Feat. Black Thought)

7.

Hang On In There

8.

Humanity (Love The Way It Should Be)

9.

Wholy Holy

10.

I Can’t Write Left Handed

11.I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

12. Shine

What a month for albums

A great month for albums

First up is Wake Up from John Legend and The Roots. Then we have the Station to Station reissue

Go and buy


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