Joss Stone

Colour Me Free!
$13.98
This is a good comeback which eschews her previous album's hip-hop, leanings for more straightforward retro soul funk: Joss Stone has finally returned to the retro-soul music that first helped to turn her into one of the UK's most promising new artists.
Her sound is hardly new anymore and Stone has been overtaken somewhat by artists such as Amy Winehouse and Duffy (commercially) and Adele and Beth Rowley. Hence, that's why "Colour Me Free!" perhaps lacks the originality of Stone's earliest work... or the freshness.
Fortunately for Joss, she has built a good working relationship with Conner Reeves, who co-writes many tracks and helps produce them.
Amid nods to Stevie Wonder, Al Green and Dionne Warwick, what most impresses is her voice, which has acquired emotional resonance to match its size.
"Colour Me Free!" is at its best when keeping things snappy
The single "Free Me" a free spirited blast of Motown/Northern with nice guitar licks and an electric sitar break. It is followed by the equally charming "Could Have Been You", which waltzes along on a bed of twinkling piano chords, cute guitar licks and soulful vocals.
The piano blues "4 and 20", with its organ shadings and shivering strings, recalls the Memphis funk of Willie Mitchell's classic Al Green hits.
Jeff Beck and Sheila E crop up on "Parallel Lines", but don't quite gel as effectively as they should.
"Governmentalist" is a rare groove of political soul with a sharp rap from Nas, "Big Ole Game" is a far better blues-soul offering that features Raphael Saadiq, while the vocal trade-off between Stone and Jamie Hartman on "Stalemate" provides another bona fide highlight.
Understated slap-bass carries Joss's emotive delivery of Candi Staton's hit "You Got The Love", and David Sanborn's waspish sax decorates her take on Ray Charles's "I Believe It To My Soul", but the most obvious indication of how comfortable she is with this regained blues-soul mode is the concluding "Mr Wankerman", a slow, brooding putdown which expands into a 14-minute jam.
The album is intermittently fun and reminds us of how her voice is best used... rather than in R'n`B diva terms.
Highlights : "Free Me", "Parallel Lines", "4 and 20", "stalemate", "Governmentalist" and "Mr. Wankerman".
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Rockferry
Here and Gone

Free Me [Explicit]
$0.99

Introducing Joss Stone
$18.98
I realize this review is a couple of years overdue but I think everyone should know about the copy restriction on this CD. I had heard some of Ms. Stone's previous work on the radio and from friends. After seeing Stone being interviewed on every talk show imaginable I bought this CD with the intent of listening to it on my IPOD as I do every CD I own. I guess the joke was on me because there is software on the CD which prevents the CD from being loaded into Itunes. This infuriated me to the point that I've never actually listened to CD. Sorry, Ms. Stone and Virgin records, but this is unacceptable to me. As a librarian and a consumer I believe in the right to make a backup copy of anything I buy as long as it is for my own use. You've violated my rights. I am done with you.

Mind, Body & Soul
$11.94
I bought this cd back in 2005 after i was listing to yahoo radio and the song "you had me" by Joss Stone came on and I fell in love it. Couple of days afterwards I purchased it, and it turned to be one of my favorite cd, and I bought it becasiue od one song. I love the beats in all of her songs and her amazing voice.

This cd will make you happy and energized but yet calm no matter what mood you are in.