You mean she doesn't sound like a heroin addict? 
You cheated
But if one can just look at that cd cover and come to that conclusion without seeing or hearing anything else then Marbles you have a totally different thought process than I do.
We listened to Amy Winehouse and Joss Stone last night. Amy just made Joss seem like she was trying too hard. One came off a little more authentic and the other more too packaged.
It's getting harder to find new music that is enjoyable to me and this is CD with its "retro" sound is a good listen especially compared to the current crop of female pop artists. Wth only two listens thus far I find it more enjoyable than the new Joss Stone and Christina Aguilera CD's. And a friend said something interesting, that the CD made him want to here this on a record player. My friend knows little about LP playback but just stating that the sound had a nostalgic feel that he remembered from hearing records.
Just for R&B perspective, Miss Winehouse is not is the league of Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott etc... but she is a good listen.
BTW, if want to have a little musically enlightening experience, listen to Lauryn Hill's: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0.
IMO, by far and away the best of that series, better than Clapton etc... A rare moment that you will see and artist as bare as this, one of my favorite discs. I don't listen to it for the music but the sheer raw emotional outpouring, it will really leaving you thinking most others are just faking it. If you have some biases, leave them at the door, after one listen you may feel like you know this artist better than ones you've listened to for 20 yrs. My highest recommendation, it's not for everyone and she lets you know that right at the intro, so if you're gonna check out, now's your time but if you can hang in there you will be greatly rewarded.
Miss Hill is the only artist to do a rendition of the Sam Cooke classic " A Change Is Gonna Come" that moved me as much as the original. And MANY have covered that song.
"A Change Is Gonna Come," recorded on January 30th, 1964, with a sumptuous orchestral arrangement by Rene Hall, was more personal: in its first-person language and the experiences that preceded its creation. On October 8th, 1963, while on tour in the South, Cooke and members of his entourage were arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace after they tried to register at a white motel -- an incident reflected in the song's third verse. And Cooke's mourning for his eighteen-month-old son, Vincent, who died that June in a drowning accident, resonates in the final verse: "There have been times that I thought/I couldn't last for long."
On December 11th, 1964, nearly a year after he recorded the song, Cooke was fatally shot at a Los Angeles motel. Two weeks later, "A Change Is Gonna Come" was released as a single -- Cooke's farewell address and final hit."
Having grown up listening to 60's & 70's Soul and Rock & Roll.
If we want to talk about classic R&B Soul then that's something within itself, as is Jazz, Classic Rock and so on.
I was donating some stuff to the Salvation Army yesterday and I saw a lady heading in with some stuff and she had one record and a bunch on bric-a-brac, it was Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, I grabbed it from her in exchange for my wife's fake pearl earrings. I hope that wasn't too wrong a thing to do.
