James Hunter - People Gonna Talk
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Artist: James HunterEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-03-07
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- People Gonna Talk
- No Smoke Without Fire
- You Can't Win
- Riot in My Heart
- Til Your Fool Comes Home
- Mollena
- I'll Walk Away
- Watch & Chain
- Kick It Around
- Don't Come Back
- It's Easy to Say
- Tell Her for Me
- Talkin' 'Bout My Love
- All Through Cryin'
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Free Music Review: Smokin'!
Hit: 5 Stars
People Gonna Talk is a decidedly retro album- released in 2006, it feels and sounds like a 60s soul platter, complete with skintight horns, hip-grindin' rhythms, tube-shredding guitar runs, and the like. Now, this may seem like nothing more than a glorified vanity project, some white square's Otis Redding dress-up fantasy and nothing more. And that is undoubtedly what some people will denounce it as. And they'd be right if James Hunter wasn't so f***ing talented. He's an incredible performer, with a gift for raw, smoldering vocals and nerve-jangling guitar runs. He can preach the blues with the best of `em, at times channeling Wilson Pickett and Sam Cooke. Plus, he's a hell of a songwriter. These tunes sound so authentic, so firmly rooted in the juke joints and nightclubs of mid-century America, that it's hard to believe that everything on this album is a Hunter original. And he doesn't rely on clich? or convention, either; this guy has obviously spent a lot of time around a whole heap of Bobby "Blue" Bland, Ray Charles, Al Green, and Rufus Thomas records, digging deep into the essence of their sound, mapping out every irresistible nook and cranny, and translating his findings into pure musical gold. Plus, he's got a first rate band (love that mini horn section!). The result is an engrossing, exciting, rollicking, and unbelievably fun record, an album that drips with joy and rage and rawness and sex. If it had been released back in the 60s, we'd all be calling it a masterpiece of the genre.
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Van Morrison calls James Hunter "the best voice and best-kept secret in British R&B and soul." And the Colchester native and former busker does, indeed, sound like a one-man blue-eyed revival on his U.S. debut, People Gonna Talk. He navigates 14 self-penned ska (the title track), soul-blues ("Kick It Around"), and primal funk ("No Smoke Without Fire") tunes with panache. Hunter's voice unerringly carves out graceful melodies and soars into falsetto at whim over his horn-sparked band as he digs through his vast bag of traditional, stinging blues'n'soul licks on electric guitar. But... there's something missing. Although the disc was cut live in the studio, it lacks the vibrant energy of his stage performances. And Hunter borrows so extensively from his influences that he sounds like he's covering Bobby Bland, Howard Tate, James Brown, and the Studio One roster rather than traveling his own path. Nevertheless, as Morrison intimates, Hunter's estimable singing and playing will please fans of classic R&B and soul. --Ted Drozdowski"2006 Grammy Nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album of the Year"
"James is one of the best voices, and best kept secrets, in British R & B and soul. Check him out." -Van Morrison
On his U.S. debut, James Hunter proves to be a man of impeccable taste who has learned from his influences rather than simply imitating them. 'People Gonna Talk' features 14 original tracks written and arranged by Hunter, who partnered with producer Liam Watson to create a wonderfully rich, classic soul sound. The album was recorded at Watson's Toe Rag Studios in East London (also home to The White Stripes' 'Elephant'), where vintage analog equipment captured the warmth of Hunter's authentic and heartfelt sensibilities.
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