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Track Listings
| 1. Every Time You See Me Smile |
| 2. Ain t That A Lot Of Love |
| 3. After You |
| 4. No Man's Land |
| 5. The Queen Of Starting Over |
| 6. Black Butta |
| 7. Saviour |
| 8. Time Is On My Side |
| 9. Why Me Why You Why Now |
| 10. Tell Me I'm Wrong |
| 11. Trade It Up |
| 12. Rock Steady |
| 13. Uptight |
| 14. Back To You |
| 15. After You (Radio Mix) |
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When Music City Soul by Beverley Knight popped through the letterbox I confess I was a little apprehensive. I clearly remember the disappointment of listening to her last studio album, Affirmation. But wait, what's that I hear? Has someone mistakenly slipped an Aretha Franklin CD into the box? From the opening chorus of 'Every Time You See Me Smile' I was blown away!
Interestingly, the sleeve notes feature a quote from Beverley which states, 'I have waited years to make this kind of album, and finally here it is'. I'd love to know why she has had to wait so long as it's clear her amazingly powerful and soulful voice has finally been allowed to run wild and free in its natural habitat. Gone are the polished tricks and schmaltz of past studio productions, replaced here by a refreshingly honest approach, recorded in Nashville and in just five days.
Music City Soul contains a fabulously rich and timeless plethora of gospel soul with oodles of originality. The first single from the album, 'No Mans Land' has some truly beautiful and spine-chilling harmonies and 'Black Butta' nods in the direction of 'Nutbush City Limits' by Ike and Tina Turner. The stand-out track has to be one written by Miss Knight herself, 'Every Time You See Me Smile,' with its feel-good groove and guitar licks courtesy of Rolling Stones legend, Ronnie Wood. If you had to pick a fault, and it really is very hard to do so, the weakest track out of fifteen is ''Saviour'', whose opening riff has strange echoes of ''Walk This Way'' by Aerosmith.
Ultimately, Beverley Knight is the real deal. She has a stunning persona, is a passionate and energetic performer and has a compelling command over her supremely soulful voice. Excuse me while I rush off to book my tickets for her forthcoming UK tour! --Teddy McDonald
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Product Description
Music City Soul + 3 Bonus Tracks (CD Album) by Beverley Knight - 15 Tracks : 1. Every Time You See Me Smile, 2. Ain't That A Lot Of Love, 3. After You, 4. No Man's Land, 5. The Queen Of Starting Over, 6. Black Butta, 7. Saviour, 8. Time Is On My Side, 9. Why Me Why You Why Now, 10. Tell Me I'm Wrong, 11. Trade It Up, 12. Rock Steady - BONUS TRACKS : 13. Uptight, 14. Back To You, 15. After You (Radio Mix) - Producer : EG White (tracks: 4) , Paul Reid (tracks: 12), Producer, Engineer : Mark Nevers (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 11, 13, 14)
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
After a decade of successful contemporary Soul/RnB album's Beverley Knight gets back to the classic old school soul sound. If the likes of Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye are your 'thang' then this album is for you. Each track was recorded live, instead of layered, to keep that classic soul sound. Produced by Mark Nevers and featuring session musicians who have worked with legends like Al green and Elvis Presley. Also featuring, The Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood (a huge fan of Ms Knight) on three tracks: 'Every Time You See Me Smile', 'Black Butta' and 'Ain't That A Lot Of Love'.
With fabulous song arrangements from the great piano groove on Ain't That A Lot Of Love to the catchy brass riffs on Queen Of Starting Over this album is guaranteed to get your toes `a' tapping.
The songs range from heart rending ballads like No Man's Land and After You thro' to get up n jump about floor fillers like Black Butta and a blistering cover of The Stones Time Is On My Side.
This is THE album to get you through the summer of 2007 with a smile on your face and a groove in your step.
With fabulous song arrangements from the great piano groove on Ain't That A Lot Of Love to the catchy brass riffs on Queen Of Starting Over this album is guaranteed to get your toes `a' tapping.
The songs range from heart rending ballads like No Man's Land and After You thro' to get up n jump about floor fillers like Black Butta and a blistering cover of The Stones Time Is On My Side.
This is THE album to get you through the summer of 2007 with a smile on your face and a groove in your step.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I'll admit, the Beverley Knight of the 90s largely passed me by. She was an R&B artist - admittedly a cut above most of her genre colleagues talent-wise - but R&B, or rather the production-line pap that calls itself R&B these days, tends to leave me cold. Old school soul, on the other hand, is another matter entirely. Since switching focus, Ms Knight has been a bit of a revelation. Her talent as a singer has never been in doubt, but now at last she is performing music that really does her justice. Gorgeous first single No Man's Land is no fluke, although neither is it indicative of the rest of this mainly upbeat, feelgood album. There is not a duff track in sight as our Bev sings her heart out on songs that have soul to spare.
The album is a nice balance of well-chosen and perfectly executed cover versions (two), original songs written by other people (three), and songs co-written by Beverley herself (all the rest), showing that she has songwriting talent to go with that fine voice. She has turned again to former collaborators, four of the songs being written with Martin Brammer (remember The Kane Gang, 80s children?), and two with former Robbie Williams puppeteer Guy Chambers. As before, the Chambers contributions are two of the rockier tracks - Black Butta and Saviour. Let's hope they don't meet with the same tiresome inverse snobbery from urban radio stations as their predecessor, the excellent Come As You Are.
There have been criticisms that the album is less than glowing with originality. It is true that After You, written by Leeson & Vale (the duo behind Charles & Eddie's Would I Lie To You, amongst others) sometimes strays a little close to Al Green's Let's Stay Together, while the start of Black Butta will conjure up nightmarish visions of Tina Turner's thighs hoving into view as their owner prepares to belt out Nutbush City Limits. What such criticisms miss however is that it's the instantly familiar feel of the songs that is one of the album's big strengths. The other, of course, is Beverley's voice. Along with the likes of the rather scarier Amy Winehouse, Beverley Knight is doing her bit to bring back old school soul to the masses. A classy album from a classy singer.
The album is a nice balance of well-chosen and perfectly executed cover versions (two), original songs written by other people (three), and songs co-written by Beverley herself (all the rest), showing that she has songwriting talent to go with that fine voice. She has turned again to former collaborators, four of the songs being written with Martin Brammer (remember The Kane Gang, 80s children?), and two with former Robbie Williams puppeteer Guy Chambers. As before, the Chambers contributions are two of the rockier tracks - Black Butta and Saviour. Let's hope they don't meet with the same tiresome inverse snobbery from urban radio stations as their predecessor, the excellent Come As You Are.
There have been criticisms that the album is less than glowing with originality. It is true that After You, written by Leeson & Vale (the duo behind Charles & Eddie's Would I Lie To You, amongst others) sometimes strays a little close to Al Green's Let's Stay Together, while the start of Black Butta will conjure up nightmarish visions of Tina Turner's thighs hoving into view as their owner prepares to belt out Nutbush City Limits. What such criticisms miss however is that it's the instantly familiar feel of the songs that is one of the album's big strengths. The other, of course, is Beverley's voice. Along with the likes of the rather scarier Amy Winehouse, Beverley Knight is doing her bit to bring back old school soul to the masses. A classy album from a classy singer.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Saw Beverley on a BBC show and bought an album.Then ended up buying all her albums!Going to see her in concert in October.This particular album is brilliant.This women could sing the phone book and be brilliant!She is up there with the best in my opinion.
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Beverley Knight takes us back in time and brings us another superb...
Following the success of her rendition of "Piece Of My Heart" which was included on her Best Of entitled "The Voice", it is no wonder that Miss Beverley Knight chose to follow this... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Amillionmiles
What was she thinking?
Oh dear. I like Bev a lot but can't find anything to enjoy in this one. In my opinion (and my wife's who I bought it for) it's bland with no memorable tunes at all. Read more
Published 20 months ago by R. J. Irwin
still loving it
i realised the other day how long i have been playing this cd, its fantastic. so many different types of music as per usual from Beverley, she certainly is not a lazy musician. Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2008 by R. Storer
Spine tingling, life affirming soul .... and she's british!
This is damn fine stuff! Like a number of other reviewers some of Bev's previous stuff has been a little 'soul-lite' for my tastes; that's not to say it's bad, on the contrary,... Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2007 by Big Softy
Proves she is THE best British soul singer
I have been a fan of Beverley for a few years now (since growing out of my pop group stage!) and I have never been in doubt that she has one of the most amazing voices in the... Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2007 by Brida
top album but lacks direction
I had high hopes for this album and i wasnt dissapointed. I watched Beverleys blog on youtube and she explains her intentions for the recording. Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2007 by T, Holmes
Why are you reading this? Buy It Now!
Like other people I thought that She had amazing voice but was sated doing pop R&B nonsence. Now that she's doing Soul and her voice has somehow gotten better. Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2007 by Tim Healey
Just go out and buy it
Beverley Knight has always been well above the average, and she has 3 excellent albums to her name, which have always hinted at the real Soul voice that she has, rather than... Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2007 by Andy Edwards
There ain't no other like Black Butta!
In terms of soul singers, in my humble opinion, Beverley Knight is peerless. The strength and range of her voice is simply breathtaking. Read more
Published on 22 May 2007 by The Inspired One
Amazing!!
I am so pleased that Beverley Knight got the chart recognition for this album, which both it and she thoroughly deserve. Read more
Published on 19 May 2007 by Sam
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