Rick James - Deeper Still
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Artist: Rick JamesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Music Label: Stone City Records
Soundtracks:
- Deeper Still
- Guinnevere
- Stop It
- Taste
- Stroke
- Do You Wanna Play
- Not Alone
- Sapphire
- Maybe
- Secrets
- Funk Wit Me
Music reviews of Deeper Still
Music Review: Grown Folk Funk n Roll
Rating: 5 Stars
I know some of you will beg to differ but I am the BIGGEST RICK JAMES fan ever! I never missed a concert and bought every album that he released. I waited for 2 1/2 long years for this album to be released and when it finally was I was no where near disapointed. A lot of folk want to harp on his legal troubles and the deamons in his life but push that crap aside and listen to the genius that was Rick James. From "COME GET IT" to "URBAN RAPSODY", the funk was alive and kickin. His voice was one of the best in music. We have all heard the classics (YOU AND I, MARY JANE, BUSTIN OUT, FIRE IT UP, GIVE IT TO ME BABY, SUPERFREAK etc), but take the time to listen to Rick's ballads and I'm not just talking about "FIRE & DESIRE" and "EBONY EYES". One listen to "JEFFERSON BALL" from the Bustin Out album or "MY LOVE" from the "THROWIN DOWN" album and you too should be convinced that his voice was superior to most. This new album "DEEPER STILL" will go down as a classic. After all the drama in his life, "DEEPER STILL" represents RICK JAMES THE ADULT. The title track is tearing adult radio down and shows that the funk in him still lives...it never died. His remake of "GUINNEVERE" is simply beautiful. The groovy "STOP IT" is straight riding music and could possibly be the next single from this album. "DO YOU WANNA PLAY" with JOHNNY GILL and HOWARD HEWITT is a stone cold blue lights in the basement joint and Rick more than holds his own with two of R&B's greatest voices ever. "SAPPHIRE" is his ode to the black woman (i.e. EBONY EYES). It's a beautiful song (BLOW DANNY)! This album will not disappoint. From the funk of "NOT ALONE" and "STROKE" (about his trying times) to the smoothness of "Maybe" Rick was headed back to the top of the charts with this one. PICK IT UP...you will totally love it. Too bad he's not here to enjoy the success that could have been (or will be). Imagine a video for "DEEPER STILL"...
RIP JAMES AMBROSE JOHNSON JR, (aka SLICK RICK JAMES). I miss you brother !
Description of Deeper Still
Rick James died suddenly in 2004 but left a legacy of over 50 completed masters of unreleased new songs. Deeper Still represents the first release on Rick James' Stone City Records. The CD contains the smash hit Deeper Still Released to urban AC radio in February 2007, within 3 weeks the single rose to #21* (with a bullet) in RR's Urban Adult chart and continues to climb.At the time of his death in 2004, the indomitable Rick James was in the process of unleashing yet another wave of freakiness on the general populace. He had penned 10 songs, half of what he hoped would become a double-disc set, and holed himself up in his L.A. home studio to record them. Though the project never came to fruition as he envisioned it, Deeper Still culls the tracks he had in the can plus a single cover, and it opens wide a window on the freak-master's mindset in his final days. The gentle title song swerves away from empty come-ons and excessive suavity to celebrate romance and (of all things) commitment, and a later track, "Sapphire," again dispenses with signature slinkiness in favor of affirmation--here, strong black women see some love. Evidence of James's fabled "sex, drugs, and funk & soul" lifestyle peek through on the steamy "Do You Want to Play" and the autobiographical cuts "Taste" and "Stroke," but mostly Deeper Still represents a mellowing. "Guinnevere," the cover, is a great example: James, who was still in fine vocal form, gets comfortable with a meandering David Crosby meditation on a green-eyed lady who longs, above all, to be set free. --Tammy La Gorce
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