Search - Joss Stone :: Mind Body & Soul (W/Dvd) (Spec)

Joss Stone has real soul and heart

Brian Malone | 05/02/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I would recommend adding Joss' CD to anyone's collection of soul music. I am disheartened with the haters who want to jump on the 'white girl stealing the black woman's sound' or 'she's too young to sing songs with real soul'. Listen to her music and ignore her color and age. She certainly has experienced love, loss, happiness and sadness, these are universal. "Mind, Body and Soul" has three songs out of 17 that I don't care for, but the tracks that really hit with me make up for that. "Understand" was the song I first heard and Joss' voice laid over the starting lonely arpeggiated guitar caught my attention and the careful addition of instruments and backing vocals as the song continues builds the energy and tension. Listen to the backing vocals and you know the production group understands soul. "Right to be Wrong" evokes Janis Joplin with a Gladys Knight vibe. "Jet Lag" speaks to the intoxication of love - years back Lisa Stansfield would have recorded this. "Spoiled" is a Slow Jam if I have ever heard one. "Don't Cha Wanna Ride" is just a feel good old school ditty laid over the "Soulful Strut" sample. I saw a reviewer on another site ask 'Why did they put a song about a car in the middle of the album?' - The guy needs to get a clue, the song is not about a car - it is a metaphor! The song is a girl shaking her hips and smiling. It makes me want to go buy a convertible and take my wife on a drive and picnic by the oceanside. Imagine my surprise when I watched the included DVD videos and the video for this song is set along a beach drive! "Torn and Tattered", "Killing Time", "Less is More" and "The Right Time" make my play list. Skipped tracks are "You Had Me", "God Only Knows" and "Call it Christmas"."

A YOUNG JANIS JOPLIN

Denise Young-Nycz | BOARDMAN, OH USA | 02/09/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"THIS IS A VERY SOULFUL DISC. JOSS'S VOICE HAS A HOARSE, FULL

BODIED R&B SOUND. VERY UNIQUE. SHE SEEMS SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN

BORN IS THE 70'S. THIS ALBUM HAS A STORY TO TELL. IT IS WELL WORTH THE MONEY. SHE SOUNDS LIKE A YOUNG JANIS JOPLIN.

DENISE

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