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Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 694
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 10:43 am: | 
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Hello all,
The best Christmas gift I can give you is to tell you about the best Christmas CD out this year is It's Christmas by Ledisi. Ah man this CD is TIGHT! I had heard samples of it on iTunes and fell instantly in love. I downloaded the CD yesterday and have been head over heels in bliss ever since. This is a singing, no, SANGIN woman out here. It takes me back to when I was growing up and the CHURCH choir would sing the traditional Christmas songs. Judy Garland NEVER sang Have Yourself A Merry Christmas the way it was sung in First Freewill Baptist. Ledisi is singing those songs like that, church soulful, upbeat tight musical arrangements. The CD is near perfect, possibly the best CD of the year. |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 1426
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 05:58 pm: |
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Thump, how did I miss this post! Man, do you remember a tread we had on female singers, (no, not that one, ouch) I said I'd just got turned on to Ledisi. Anyway, I's got to get this one. I remember you saying that you had heard of her but didn't own any of her stuff. Well, you done come up. This will be my first Christmas selection of this year. I don't wish to start anything but does Aretha have one that you might suggest. If not Aretha, who.
You know what we've never done before, talk about Gospel Singers, CD's. Now er'body can't join in on that. I can assume Yvette might have something to say. She's a music fiend. Not like devilish, but she knows her stuff. |
Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 700
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 07:27 pm: |
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Hello All,
Carey: Yeah, Aretha has one out title This Christmas. I haven't gotten it yet, because it was only sold at Borders. As soon as its available at one of my stomping grounds, I'm getting it.
Oh man, the Ledisi Christmas CD, It's Christmas is SLAMMIN!! It's the best album I've heard this year, bar none! First she starts off with this pretty intro that she wrote called I'll Go for the song Children Go Where I Send You! You here this pretty piano start and then the baritones/tenors, which then goes to the soprano/altos, and then Ledisi comes in, wordless, wailing! Then she goes into an upbeat, blues/gospel version of Children. It's off the HOOK! The next cut is a cover of the Temptations' Give Love at Christmas, a real pretty soulful cover. Then the next cut is another song Ledisi wrote, Be There at Christmas. This cut is sharp. It reminds me of an old upbeat Motown song. Her version of What Are You Doing New Year's Eve is tight. Have Yourself a Merry Christmas is real nice. Ledisi wrote It's Christmas, another wonderful cut. Then she does What A Wonderful World, another successful cover of the Louis Armstrong song. But to me, the real ass-wiper on the CD is her take on the Please Come Home For Christmas, the Charles Brown song. She wears it OUT!! If I could have reached through my iPod and slapped Ledisi I would have. She follows that up with a jazzy version of Silent Night. It's Ledisi on the vocals, accompanied by a bass and drums (I'm not exactly sure because I don't have the CD booklet). Her rendition puts me in mind of Cassandra Wilson, because it sounds like an arrangement Cassandra would have thrown down. Ledisi wraps up the album with another beautiful song that she wrote titled Thank You.
There is not one bad track on the album! I love LEDISI!
Yeah, we going to have to start a thread for gospel singers...real ones! *eyebrow raised--casting an evil eye around the room* *LOL* |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 1428
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 06:12 pm: |
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Hello
This is hard, I'm writing a post while shimmering... yeah shimmering. I 'm listening to Ledisi's This Christmas and I can't think of another word to describe my feelings. I don't want to sound like Thump's Huckleberry but this CD is Jazzy Christmas. That's what I said, jazzy feel good -- Christmas. You know how you feel around Cristmas...right? You know how good jazz makes you feel...right? Well, throw those babies in a black pot and you got Ledisi's This Christmas. Listen what I'm....ouch....I can't do this now....she justed started scattin' |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 1429
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 05, 2008 - 02:25 am: |
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Okay, I had to stop but I'm back. I need to say something. If you're missing someone real bad, you might not want to listen to Ledisi's This Christmas. But if you like crying and REALLY miss someone, go right ahead...it's cryin' time again -- in a good kind of way.
Her version of What Are You Doing New Years Eve is just toooo smooth. I felt like I was in The Cotton Club on Christmas Eve. I thought Humprey Bogart would walk through any minute.
She did it all on It's Christmas! She starts out slow and easy, she stops and the piano dwifts in, she sing over the top. But check this, she sings along in a husky jazzy kind of way and the song ends...but it's not over. She breaks back in a scat and then opens her range. The background singers come in and she hums along. She finishes strong and I -- hit repeat. This selection is Ledisi.
I don't know if you like B.B. King but on Please Come Home For Christmas she does a duet kind of thang with a guy named Keb Mo. He also plays the guitar in a B.B King kind of way. It's old school Christmas, I loved it.
I heard Oletha Adams in her Silent Night. Listen, Ledisi can blow. I've never heard a Silent Night sung like this. The only problem was it wasn't long enough.
Look, I'm like Emanuel, I don't have a lot of money so "I've been makin' my list and checkin' it twice, trying to find out who's naughty or nice. My list is tight, down to the naughty -- right where I want it.
But seriously, I didn't want to give up any money for a CD but I'm glad I did. This is a CD that you spring on someone and wait for them to ask -- WHO IS THAT! Then you say....What? You don't know about Ledisi? Then you turn it up and smile.
This ain't your High School Christmas music. This ain't the William Brothers or the Staple Singers. This is smooth Ledisi doin' her thang.
Thanks Thump |
Nom_de_plume
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Username: Nom_de_plume
Post Number: 175
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 - 09:19 pm: |
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As usual, you are on point with EVERY fuckin thing you say. This album is LIKE THAT. Thanks for the glowing recommendation!!! |
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