Product details
Title: Songs In A Minor [ECD]
Performer: Alicia Keys
Genre: R&B
Sub Genre: Contemporary R&B
Release Date: 11/08/2003
Recomended Retail Price: 13.99 GBP
Original Release Year: 2001
Label / Distributor: J / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 743219288929
Catalogue Number: 74321928892
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Additional notes
Album Notes: Personnel: Alicia Keys (vocals, various instruments, piano, keyboards); Jimmy Cozier (vocals): Gerald "G" Flowers, Arty White (guitar); Miri (violin); Isaac Hayes (Fender Rhodes piano); Brian Cox (keyboards); Richie Good (upright bass); Tim Shider, Vic Flowers, Rufus Jackson (electric bass); Norman Hedman (percussion); Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, Anthony Nance (programming); Cindy Mizelle, Tammy Saunders, Andricka Hall, Paul L. Green, Kandi B (background vocals). Producers: Jermaine Dupri, Brian McKnight, Alicia Keys, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers. Engineers include: Gerry Brown, Brian Frye, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers. Alicia Keys won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. SONGS IN A MINOR won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. "Fallin'" won the 2002 Grammy Awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and for Best R&B Song. Picture Roberta Flack with hip-hop trimmings or D'Angelo coming at the world from a female perspective and you get an idea of the immense talent welling up from musical prodigy Alicia Keys. Blessed with a soulful voice, mature-beyond-her-years songwriting, and a classically trained command of piano, it's no wonder music mogul Clive Davis brought the 20-year old performer over from Arista as one of the flagship artists for his new label J Records. Keys displays impressive range on this primarily self-penned debut that finds her taking part in arranging and/or production on every cut, once again redeeming Davis's instincts. Besides the well-earned buzz for the gripping love-and-loathe single "Fallin'," Keys earns high marks for fusing rap beats and vintage Aretha on a confidently delivered cover of Prince's "How Come You Don't Call Me." Elsewhere, the native New Yorker's flow finds her traversing the same ground as early-'70s Stevie Wonder on the thought-provoking "The Life," while "Goodbye" proves to be the quintessential Quiet Storm kiss-off. Keys wraps up SONGS with a sanctified mix of stride piano, lush strings, and gospel-flavored back-up singers on "Lovin' U."
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (1/03/02, p.118) - Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001". Mojo (1/02, p.71) - Ranked #27 in Mojo's "Best [40] Albums of 2001". Q (1/03, p.56) - Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever" Rolling Stone (7/19/01, p.53) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Keys shows a maturity beyond her years...suggesting down-home R&B contemporaries like Jill Scott as well as yesteryear's soul sophisticates..." Q (9/01, p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A prime candidate to head up the nu-soul revolution...with a voice that challenges Mary J. Blige's....Key's R&B trips to a fundamentally more old-skool set of values....Her sincerity is another plus..." Entertainment Weekly (6/29-7/6/01, p.144) - "...A debut full of promise..." - Rating: B Uncut (11/01, p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Frequently stunning....Keys soars like a young Aretha Franklin..." CMJ (4/30/01, p.21) - "...The singer showcases her classical piano training atop slow and somber percussion...her deep soulful voice and heartfelt delivery carry the songs..."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Piano And I
2.: Girlfriend
3.: How Come You Don't Call Me
4.: Fallin'
5.: Troubles
6.: Rock Wit U
7.: Woman's Worth
8.: Jane Doe
9.: Goodbye
10.: Life
11.: Mr Man - Keys, Alicia & Jimmy Cozier
12.: Never Felt This Way (interlude)
13.: Butterflyz
14.: Why Do I Feel So Sad
15.: Caged Bird
16.: Fallin' - Keys, Alicia & Busta Rhymes/Rampage
17.: Woman's Worth (remix)
18.: Lovin' U
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