Once Again John Legend
Album info
Album-Release:
2006
HRA-Release:
09.12.2016
Label: Getting Out Our Dreams/Sony Urban Music/Columbia
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Artist: John Legend
Album including Album cover
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- 1 Save Room 03:56
- 2 Heaven 03:35
- 3 Stereo 04:12
- 4 Show Me 05:01
- 5 Each Day Gets Better 03:49
- 6 King & Queen 03:50
- 7 P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care) 04:40
- 8 Slow Dance 04:43
- 9 Again 05:04
- 10 Maxine 04:30
- 11 Where Did My Baby Go 05:07
- 12 Maxine's Interlude 01:52
- 13 Another Again 04:03
- 14 Coming Home 05:04
Info for Once Again
Gefühlvoller, wohl temperierter R'n'B-Pop - mal mehr, mal weniger soulig. Einmal sorgen dezente HipHop-Beats für Schwung, zwei Songs sind postmoderne Motown-Nostalgie. Diese stilvolle, super-melodiöse Black Music entbehrt zwar jeglicher Ecken und Kanten, doch der beige, massenkompatible Nu-Soul-Wohlklang des männlichen Pendants zu Alicia Keys dürfte nicht nur Fans von Kanye West, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield & Co. gefallen!
An einem mitten in Downtown New York aufgestellten Flügel sitzt John Legend auf dem Cover seiner zweiten Studio-CD. Das in typischer Geschäfts-/Wohn- Backsteinhaus-Kulisse aufgenommene Foto vermittelt Bodenhaftung, doch die Musik des Albums ist bis ins Detail ausgefeilt und strahlt elegantes Flair aus. Kein Wunder, John Stephens (Künstlername: John Legend) hat eine lange Referenzliste, welche seine Talente belegt. Auf The Boogie That B der Black Eyed Peas tritt der Mann aus Springfield/Ohio als Sänger und Co-Autor auf, wirkte außerdem an Janet Jacksons I Want You, Alicia Keys You Don't Know My Name, Lauren "The Fugees" Hills Everything Is Everything oder dem Black Album von Jay-Z mit sowie natürlich am Solo-Schaffen seines Entdeckers Kanye West (The College Dropout). Legends Erfolgs-Disc Get Lifted (2005), auf dem er souligen R'n'B mit einem Touch Gospel plus selektiver HipHop-Elemente mischt, beschert ihm beste Kritiken. Dazu den nicht wirklich passenden Vergleich, legitimer Nachfolger für Ray Charles zu sein und in die Fußstapfen von Stevie Wonder zu treten. Im Gegensatz zu diesen komponiert Legend, ungeachtet seines Pseudonyms, (noch) keine Lieder, die Evergreen-Status besitzen! Allerdings besitzen auch diese dreizehn Eigenkreationen des singenden Pianisten zweifelsohne etwas, dem sich der Zuhörer nur schwerlich entziehen kann. Zwar startet Once Again mit dem eher mittelmäßigen Save Room, das geschickt Samples des von Santanas bekannten Stormy Heaven (aus Inner Secrets) integriert, doch auf den Tracks Each Day Gets Better (mit einem Sample von The Four Tops In These Changing Times, 1970) und Slow Dance wird es wirklich originell. Sie sind nämlich äußerst charmante akustische Zeitreisen in die Soul-Musik der späten Sechziger/frühen Siebziger Jahre. Sehr gelungen ebenfalls der einschmeichelnde Disco-Groove P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care), das dezent angejazzte Where Did My Baby Go oder die dramatische Gospel-Ballade Coming Home, welche ebenso aus der Feder von Oleta Adams (Get Here) hätte stammen können.
Produced by John Legend, Kanye West
Digitally remastered
John Legend
is a nine-time Grammy Award winning recording artist, critically-acclaimed concert performer, philanthropist/social activist, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. Legend’s debut album, Get Lifted (2004) sold more than three million copies worldwide and earned an astounding eight Grammy nominations with three wins for Best New Artist, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B album. Legend’s follow-up album, Once Again (2006) earned RIAA platinum certification and a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. High off the success of his third consecutive Top 10 album, Evolver (2008), Legend embarked on an extensive world tour with an 11 piece band - his largest traveling show to date. Inspired by the monumental 2008 Presidential election, Legend teamed up with The Roots to release the socially conscious album, Wake Up! (2010.) The album was nominated for five Grammy Awards and won Best R&B Album, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B song (for “Shine”- an original composition also featured in Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s documentary film Waiting for Superman) along with two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Album and Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration. In 2007, Legend launched the Show Me Campaign, a nonprofit organization fighting poverty around the world. John also sits on the Boards of The Education Equality Project, Teach for America, and the Harlem Village Academies. Legend has been honored several times for his activism, including the 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year award, the 2009 CARE Humanitarian Award for Global Change, and the 2009 Africare’s Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award. In early 2012, Legend released one of the hottest songs of his career, the RIAA gold-certified hit “Tonight (Best You’ve Ever Had),” which sat atop the Urban AC radio chart for six consecutive weeks. Legend recently released his fifth studio album Love in the Future, with executive producers Kanye West and Dave Tozer, and will embark on a North American tour this autumn.
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