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Normaltown Records
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Turn View on Youtube
03:41
Together View on Youtube
02:45
How Do Ya Feel View on Youtube
04:06
Surprise View on Youtube
03:44
Hooked View on Youtube
03:28
Where Is Da Luv? View on Youtube
02:56
Better Off Dead
Boulevards, Nikki Lane
04:10
God Bless Ya (Be Thankful) View on Youtube
03:01
Ain’t Right View on Youtube
02:25
Modern Man View on Youtube
03:55
Time View on Youtube
03:47
Problems View on Youtube
04:16
On his fourth Boulevards album, Jamil Rashad keeps backsliding Jeffrey Daniel-style across the R&B timeline and pivots to do the cosmic slop. Where the Raleigh native's first couple LPs most frequently recalled sparkling post-disco R&B of the early '80s -- Daniel's Shalamar were one of many reference points -- Electric Cowboy: Born in Carolina Mud builds on the '60s and '70s funk and soul moves of his third full-length. The 2020-issued Brother! EP turns out to have been a prelude more than a stopgap. Those four songs were written and produced by Rashad with Blake Rhein (of Durand Jones & the Indications), and Rhein here is deeply involved, as is fellow multi-instrumentalist/producer Colin Croom (of Twin Peaks), while smaller roles are filled by other vintage-sound specialists who are either members or associates of acts such as Black Pumas and Yola. Rashad is too lucid to be a truly spaced cowboy like Sly Stone, and isn't as animated as Bootsy Collins, but the work of those two artists -- and Parliament-Funkadelic -- clearly inform what Rashad has on offer. This is altogether the grimiest and moodiest Boulevards album with Rashad and company somehow maintaining a high level of appeal. Also different from previous Boulevards albums, Rashad sings with restraint the whole time, giving each line an air of secrecy and/or seduction -- almost as if he's self-conscious about breaking an unreasonable noise ordinance. The approach is fitting, with Rashad riding just above the warmly reverberant grooves and background voices to heady effect.
by Boulevards
by Boulevards, Nikki Lane
Turn
Together
How Do Ya Feel
Surprise
Hooked
Where Is Da Luv?
God Bless Ya (Be Thankful)
Ain’t Right
Modern Man
Problems
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