Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul 2 x CD Deluxe (2022) Foundation/BMG - Soul/Jazz (FLAC)

Over here in the UK our top chat show is The Graham Norton Show on BBC 1.  I cant say i,m an avid viewer of the  show but whilst flicking around (as you do) i came across the new artist a few weeks back. Quite a performance and costume to match!..She has a new raw refreshing "retro" sound that i havent heard since Amy Winehouse & Emily Sande burst onto the scene. So she has been around for a while but this is her debut album.Whilst CD1 is nu-jazz and right up my street CD2 is aimed at the dance crowd. Under the name Lady Blackbird, Los Angeles based vocalist and composer Marley Munroe mixes original songs with updates of classic jazz ballads and deep soul cuts. She favored predominantly acoustic backing for Black Acid Soul (2021), a meditative debut album that followed well over a decade of behind the scenes work with artists across soul/jazz world. Marley grew up listening to soul and gospel music through her parents, started singing at a very early age, and performed throughout her childhood at a variety of events in and around her native Farmington, New Mexico. A deal with a Christian music label at the age of 12 didn't result in the release of any solo material, but she recorded with DC Talk and worked and toured extensively with that group's TobyMac. Out of her contract in her late teens, she moved into secular music and established herself simultaneously as a recording artist and songwriter. Munroe landed a contract with Epic and issued a couple promotional retro modern pop soul singles in early 2013. However, she and the major label parted before a planned album reached the public. Munroe had co-written two songs on Anastacia's Resurrection album, collaborated with Joseph Arthur, and forged a creative partnership with producer Chris Seefried when, in February 2020, she introduced Lady Blackbird with a reverent if personalized version of Nina Simone's "Blackbird." In September 2021, a handful of subsequent singles under Munroe's new jazz-oriented alias culminated in the album Black Acid Soul. It was released on Vinyl & CD with 11 tracks,but a Delux version was released where she was obviosly aiming at the Jazz & Soul market,and the danceclubs. There,s great versions of Reuben Bell & The Casanovs,a deep soul classic "Its Not That Easy & Irma Thomas "Ruler Of |My Heart"...Its a cleverly thought out brilliant album to keep soul and jazz fans happy,and i think she has not reached her peak yet.I cant wait for her next release!

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