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Music CD - Robert Randolph & The Family Band: Colorblind
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Music CD: Colorblind
Artist: Robert Randolph & The Family Band
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $7.78
Your Save: $ 11.20 ( 59% )
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Tracks:
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1. Ain't Nothing Wrong With That
2. Deliver Me
3. Diane
4. Angels
5. Jesus Is Just Alight -- feat. Eric Clapton
6. Stronger -- feat. Leela James
7. Thrill Of It
8. Blessed
9. Love Is The Only Way In -- feat. Dave Matthes, Leroi Moore, & Rashawn Ross
10. Thankful 'N Thoughtful
11. Homecoming
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624439325
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 2006-10-10
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Would've been 3.5 Stars
Comment: 'Colorblind' is an intriguing album. However, fans that are looking for Randolph and Co. to jam out with the sound of previous albums won't find it here. The appearances of Eric Clapton, Leela James, Leroi Moore, and Dave Matthews show that Randolph is beginning to take off. However, some of the songs had a commercial feel, like he wrote them strictly for the radio. An example of this is shown in 'Ain't Nothin Wrong With That', which was a very popular song on VH1 and NFL Football in 2006 and 2007.
Overall, it's Robert Randolph and it's worth buying. The cover of 'Jesus is Just Alright' is enough in itself to get the album.
Customer Rating:
Summary: CD
Comment: I had never heard of this band until I saw it featured on So You Think You
Can Dance program. So I decided to order it and hear the whole song and CD
The CD isn't bad but the song Ain't Nothing Wrong With That is the reason I ordered the CD and I was not disappointed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: electric lap steel genuis
Comment: This guy amazes me! Wow! what a player! I love the catchy grooves and the heavy backbeat! If you've never listened to this guy, do yourself a favor and buy this CD. It will impress as well as astound ! I saw this guy on Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar festival and was impressed. Now, that I've bought one of his recordings, I'll be looking for more!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's worth one song.
Comment: I heard "Ain't Nothin' Wrong with That" while on vacation on the Outer Banks. I don't own the album. Yet. That one song is worth the price of the whole CD. I haven't heard such a rocker in years! I was boppin' so hard I almost hurt myself. If you can't rock to that, you can't rock. If what the other reviews say (for the most part) is true, I'm in for more of a treat. Can't wait!
Customer Rating:
Summary: I'M not blind
Comment: I don't remember exactly how I was introduced to Robert Randolph and the Family Band, but I thought that their album Unclassified was aptly titled because it was so good that it maybe deserved its own genre. And although their latest album Colorblind was released last year, I never even heard of it until last MONTH, but I picked it up.
It's odd that a lot of reviewers are surprised that this album isn't quite as good as seeing the band live; I mean, when does a studio album EVER sound like a live performance? But there are plenty of great selections on here, like "Angels", "Homecoming" and "Blessed". And "Ain't Nothing Wrong with That" made me say just that.
Another highlight is "Stronger", which features guest vocals from Leela James. Other artists also add noteworthy instrumentation, like DMB members Dave Matthews and Leroi Moore on "Love Is the Only Way" and Eric Clapton on the remake of "Jesus Is Just Alright". And this album is more than just alright. True, Unclassified is a very hard album to top, but Colorblind suits me just fine.
Anthony Rupert
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Editorial Reviews:
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Colorblind isn't an adequate title for this album. Randolph's follow-up to 2003's Grammy-nominated Unclassified is bright and energetic as a tie-dye-patterned pinwheel. Mostly its 11 tunes are about grooves plucked from the era of Sly Stone and Stevie Wonder, dappled with brilliant classic rock musicianship (think Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck) and driven by frenetic verve. When things slow down, it's usually to let the young pedal steel virtuoso revisit his roots in the Holiness Church, although the team of pop-world songwriters he collaborates with make the lyrics of Randolph's R&B hymns ambiguous between devotion to a woman or to God. Guests Dave Matthews (singing backup on "Love Is the Only Way") and Eric Clapton (lending second guitar to a hot-but-rote cover of the Doobie Brothers' hit "Jesus Is Just Alright") are oddly subdued, but neo-soul diva Leela James puts sex and smolder into her duet with Randolph on "Stronger." Ultimately, though, this album's all about Randolph himself, who has loosened his grip on the blues and gospel bedrock of his earlier playing to become a master of flashy funk and rock riffs and the owner of a tone so gargantuan it's earned him a place in rock-guitar Olympus--if not Heaven. --Ted Drozdowski
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