Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee (08/23)

[Troublemaker]

Jimmy Lee is a deeply personal, musically ambitious work inspired by his brother’s struggles with addiction that explores the razor’s edge people walk as they pursue pleasure that leads to pain — an incisive and empathetic work from a master at the peak of his art. This album is self-produced and will be released on Columbia Records. 


Jimmy Lee Track Listing

1. Sinners Prayer

2. So Ready

3. This World Is Drunk

4. Something Keeps Calling

5. Kings Fall

6. I’m Feeling Love

7. My Walk

8. Belongs To God

9. Dottie’s Interlude

10. Glory To The Veins

11. Rikers Island

12. Rikers Island Redux

13. Rearview

Tour Dates

Aug 3 – Columbia, MD – Summer Spirit Fest

Aug 23 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey

Sep 5 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Ballroom

Sep 6 – Austin, TX – Mohawk

Sep 7 – Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Festival

Sep 7-8 – Atlanta, GA – ONE Musicfest

Sep 10 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg

[Troublemaker]

Track 2

[newpower]

Solid album with a strong message. I prefer it to his last two.

[Troublemaker]

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The album has a 95 on Metacritic (universal acclaim). Should pull in some Grammy nods.

I need to give this a more attentive listen. When I first listened, nothing really caught my attention outside of the single.. but I think this is just a lot less commercial than the previous two albums.

[Ty]

I like "Something Keeps Calling". Need to find a time to sit down and delve into this album.

[newpower]

I listened the whole album twice and I was somewhat disappointed and then I listened one more time and it clicked.
The World is Drunk, My Walk, I’m Feeling Love and the single are my favorites.

The abrupt ending of the songs is a little annoying especially when some songs could have been a little longer.

[Troublemaker]

It’s obvious this is an album he’s always wanted to make. I appreciate albums like this and also the fact that he didn’t have us waiting for throwaway tracks.

[SHOOTER]

Definitely stronger than Stone Rollin' but also something you can tell was designed to be listened to as a whole.

[Troublemaker]

[collegedropout]

Where did the album and "Something Keeps Calling" peak?

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Nov 15, 2019 19:20:53 GMT -5 collegedropout said:

Where did the album and "Something Keeps Calling" peak?

The album peaked at #25 on the Billboard 200. The single peaked at #2 Billboard Adult R&B.

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[newpower]

New Tony Toni Tone music! I hope is good. Their 90s albums are classics.
Thanks for posting.

[Rican@]

Someone explains to me why “Ask of You” can’t be found on Spotify. Even when I tried to purchase it, it is an album only too ugh

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Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest R&B Songs of The 21st Century

#48 Raphael Saadiq feat. D’Angelo, ‘Be Here’
2002

This 2002 duet between neo-soul titans Raphael Saadiq and D’Angelo explores the full spectrum of male romantic longing over a rhythm that manages to be both laid-back and urgent, with the two singers ticking off how they’d fulfill all their partner’s desires, from breakfast in the morning to “sleazin’ and teasin’” at night. It’s a simmering come-on all the way through the outro, where Saadiq and D’Angelo trade off vamps before braiding their voices into gorgeous harmony. —M. Johnston