Ceelo Green-Ceelo Green Is Thomas Callaway-CD-FLAC-2020-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : CeeLo Green                                       
   Album       : CeeLo Green Is Thomas Callaway                    
    Label       : BMG / Easy Eye Sound                               
    Genre       : R&B                                                
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2020-07-20                                         
   Quality     : 934 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 279.95 MB                                          
     Time        : 39:49 min                                          
    Url         : http://amazon.com/CeeLo-Green-Thomas-Callaway/dp/ 
                B088N91KF3/                                      
  1.  For You                                                        3:21 
  2.  Lead Me                                                        3:39 
  3.  Little Mama                                                    2:50 
  4.  Don't Lie                                                      3:13 
  5.  I Wonder How Love Feels                                        3:02 
  6.  People Watching                                                3:51 
  7.  You Gotta Do It All                                            4:05 
  8.  Doing It All Together                                          2:35 
  9.  Slow Down                                                      3:29 
  10. Down With The Sun                                              3:20 
  11. Thinking Out Loud                                              3:03 
  12. The Way                                                        3:21 
     CeeLo Green keeps moving through a quarter-century career full of  
     unforeseeable twists and turns. Between scaling heights with the   
     Dungeon Family, Goodie Mob, and Gnarls Barkley, and minor and      
     major roles in hits by TLC, the Pussycat Dolls, and Bruno Mars,    
     he has grown a solo discography showcasing divergent creative      
     impulses as much as his undervalued vocals and songwriting. Going  
     most recently by isolated moments on The Lady Killer ("Old         
     Fashioned" more so than "Fuck You") and Heart Blanche ("Mother     
     May I"), it was apparent that the Atlanta-born son of ministers    
     could make a whole LP of organic soul evoking an era predating     
     his birth -- if only he had the will, means, and a lack of         
     major-label commercial expectations. That notion is essentially    
     made manifest with CeeLo Green Is Thomas Callaway. The title       
     imparts an intent to humanize an artist whose outsized persona,    
     displayed boldly as ever in 2020 on the British version of The     
     Masked Singer, has sometimes overshadowed his music. Indeed,       
     CeeLo resembles an everyman here more than ever before, welcomed   
     into the extended family of Easy Eye Sound, the                    
     authenticity-upholding studio and label operated by Dan Auerbach   
     (whose Black Keys have recorded extensively with Danger Mouse,     
     CeeLo's Gnarls Barkley partner). Producer Auerbach and his crew    
     of mostly elder Nashville and Memphis session pros, some of whom   
     assist CeeLo and Auerbach with songwriting, foster a               
     straightforward set that, on the surface, is fine Southern soul    
     -- late-'60s in spirit -- with a stronger country flavor than      
     expected from CeeLo. In a way, the connection to the CeeLo         
     catalog is a little looser than it is to Easy Eye offspring like   
     Yola's Walk Through Fire and Marcus King's El Dorado, and even     
     John Anderson's Years, as "Slow Down" -- the one song here that    
     CeeLo didn't co-write, a mismatch -- was first heard on that       
     latter LP. As suggested on "People Watching," one of a few         
     feel-good numbers, this is made for summertime porch listening,    
     and it's chock-full of wafting grooves and lingering ballads that  
     are ornamented with strings, horns, bells, and background voices,  
     but are never overdone. Other uplifted and upbeat songs, such as   
     "Lead Me" and "Doing It All Together," are natural picks for       
     singles, but they're outclassed by the Philly-style weeper         
     "Thinking Out Loud," where CeeLo makes like the Stylistics'        
     Russell Thompkins, Jr. with his bittersweet upper register.        
     Everything is direct, whether CeeLo is communicating with a        
     lover, reflecting upon parenthood and mortality, or beset with     
     romantic instability. Moreover, it's thoroughly earnest with a     
     high level of musical detail and a seemingly untreated result      
     attained only by master craftsmen working with a schedule that     
     precludes fuss. (It was recorded in two days, the first of which   
     CeeLo assumed would be spent on writing.) When placed in the       
     context of the singer's previous albums, its clarity, focus, and   
     uniformly wholesome nature are almost stupefying. The              
     restrictions have a liberating effect.                             

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