Borrow a Page

I often read a blog done by my niece { Only a dramatization... }. It is very interesting. So today I will borrow from her format.

Current music: Soundtrack from Robots Movie
music includes
Shine------Ricky Fanté
Get Up Offa That Thing -----James Brown (Ali Dee Remix)
Love's Dance-----Earth Wind & Fire
Robot City-----Blue Man Group & John Powell Robots
(There's Gotta Be) More to Life------Stacie Orrico

Of course I would never have been remotely interested in the soundtrack if my kids did not love the movie. The boys especially like the James Brown song. I persoanlly like the song "Shine". The singer, Ricky Fanté sings in the soul singer tradition of the "Motown/Atlantic Records" style of 60's soul music. Anyway, I have to Get Up Offa [This] Thing and go and do my things...

Ricky Fante [Rewind] [Virgin Records]

Rewind definitely captures the raw and gritty soul music from the sixties and seventies. An excellent singer and songwriter, Fante brings a revival.
Ricky Fante has brought back an almost forgotten era of soul music. He’s yet another soulful offering in the company of Anthony Hamilton, Calvin Richardson, Jaheim and Van Hunt. He’s pure soul, back in the day he would have been probably been signed to the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, once the label home for some of our most revered soul singers, such as, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Sam and Dave and others.

This Washington D.C. soul singer’s sound is reminiscent of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Sam Cooke. Rewind offers pure soul with a country feel, think Bobby Womack and Johnny Taylor, music that captures the soul and simply won’t let go.

Ricky Fante’s making his brand of popular soul music and it’s so refreshing. The hot single hitting the airwaves is "It Ain’t Easy" with a D.C. Go-Go feel. Ricky Fante’s a fabulous artist; he possesses great vocals and not to mention his killer good looks, think a young Marvin Gaye, yeah, he’s fine! He fluently translates soul sessions to listeners and provides "feel good" music throughout the entire CD. The kind of music that made Bill Withers and Wyclef masters. As you listen, it’s easy to drift off to quiet places in your mind with "If it’s all." Rewind is an intimate CD, it’s full of passion and warmth, definitely one for a road trip! Fante grew up doing Elvis impressions and you feel it on "Are You Lonely"…a really cool head bobbing retro song. Other musical influences were Frank Sinatra and most of all Stevie Wonder. This wonderful vibe continues throughout the CD. Rewind is one full of soulful storytelling, a main ingredient for soul music, no hook singing with "Love Doesn’t Live Here" and "It’s Over Now," addresses relationship breakups. Then he delivers "He Don’t Love You Like I Do" in a country/bluesy fashion. Rewind is really cool and co-written with Jesse Harris (Norah Jones fame, "I Don’t Know Why" Grammy Winner) and together they create throwback music with a fresh styling.

You’ll like Rewind because it’s real and penetrates and crosses barriers to reach you where you live…the soul! Alicia Sanders from 2004 R&B Reviews:

I think I will have to buy this album. Hey, my birthday is coming up.