I resisted the retro white girl blue eyed soul sounds of Joss Stone for as long as I could. Now I'm not sorry to say, I'm been sucked in. I love her voice and her passionate singing style. I've been grooving to this CD for the past couple of days. I got it at the used book and CD store as well.
I picked this Stones CD at Tuesday Morning for $4.99. I'm not in love with all the tracks but enough of them are good to make me like the CD as a whole. I'm a Stones fan from way back and I've been enjoying hearing different versions of some of their standards and some songs I've never heard them do until now.
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Glad to see you partook of Record Store Day! I got some pretty good bargains myself.
I like Joss Stone and a lot of her songs, but there's always been something about her that bothers me. I guess it's that she's not very "authentic." She certainly has the voice of a blues singer, but she doesn't have the soul of one.
She doesn't have the soul of a soul singer because no one really has souls Beckeye.
Years ago someone gave me a copy of Shocked's Campfire Tapes. I liked it a lot, but for some reason I never followed it up with any of her other stuff.
i like joss stone. always have.
I love Michelle Shocked. Joss I like sometimes as well and did you know she's going to be on The Tudors this coming season?
Please go buy the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. It's awesome.
I like Joss Stone as well and she seems to be a well rounded personality. Can sing great classic blues/soul songs and doesn't have the Amy Winehouse syndrome.
I love Michelle Shocked. She opened for Billy Bragg when I saw him here in Chicago in 1988. She did a cover of one of my favorite Steve Goodman songs, "Penny Evans," about a widow of a Vietnam soldier. There was also a thing she did on a radio broadcast that I think I will probably post about soon.
Michelle is a Texan, went to school at here at UT-Austin but I don't think she lives here now. We've seen her a few times - very good stuff and good politics woven through.
cool stuff - lurve me some stones.
I'm a huge Joss Stone fan too. I listened to her all day yesterday while cleaning. It made everything more enjoyable.
I get a little bored with Joss Stone, unfortunately. You might like a singer I saw this weekend. Though I don't think she has a CD, there is some music on her MySpace. A post about her on my blog.
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