Album: Jill Scott, The Original Jill Scott from the Vault Vol 1
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Your support makes all the difference.The first fruit of Hidden Beach's settlement, following their lawsuit occasioned by Jill Scott's move to Warner Bros, is far better than most contractual fulfilment albums – possibly due to Scott's involvement in its compilation.
Indeed, it's rather better than her current "official" album The Light of the Sun, with only the lacklustre "Wondering Why?" sounding like a rumination to which instrumental parts had accidentally adhered. Elsewhere, there are spry shuffling grooves ("I Don't Know"), twitchy two-steppers ("Love to Love") and a more purposive tone overall. And in the languorous, just-roused warmth of "Wake Up Baby", a neat conceit contrasting a suitor's late-night booty call with her grandma's wake-up call: "If he waits outside in his car, he ain't seeing you like the jewel you are".
DOWNLOAD THIS I Don't Know; Love to Love; Wake Up Baby; Lovely Day
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