We call it retro or neo, try to identify developments and make references, but in the end it always stays the same: soul. Let’s face it, today’s soul doesn’t sound all that different than it did half a century ago. Why? Because he can. And, also not entirely unimportant: Because it’s warmly grooving and the truly central questions of humanity are also being dealt with. Or, as Jamil Rashad aka Boulevards from Raleigh, North Carolina sings on his third album: “How do you, how do you feel?”
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Yes, that’s what ELECTRIC COWBOY: BORN IN CAROLINA MUD is about: about the love that’s gone (“Where Is Da Luv?”), about the problems that just won’t go away (“Problems”), about life, that slips between your fingers (“Ain’t Right”). And the implementation is as old-fashioned and timeless as the themes: a warm, wonderful soul full bath with funky guitars, blissfully soft keyboards and cozy melodies.
Adrian Quesada, one half of the Black Pumas, contributed and partly produced, you can hear that. Outlaw country lady Nikki Lane sings a duet with Jamil Rashad, but it ain’t a country record. Nevertheless, above all music that embraces you lovingly, massages your soul and leaves you with the beautiful feeling that every hardship is only the price of the next happiness.
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