Quite unexpectedly, Joss Stone, a sixteen-year-old English girl from Devon, provides one of the greatest soul sensations in years. Unexpected, because The Soul Sessions were not actually intended to be recorded. Joss Stone got a record deal with an American company, but during the preparations for her debut album she became intrigued by old soul records by Betty Wright, Timmy Thomas, Willie 'Little
… Beaver' Hale and Latimore, among others. She decided to stop recording her own CD to go into the studio with her heroes. That resulted in The Soul Sessions, a collection of covers of old, obscure and more famous soul songs, and an adaptation of Fell In Love With A Girl by The White Stripes (!). The band also included Cindy Blackman, known as drummer with Lenny Kravitz, Angie Stone, as a backing vocalist and The Roots' drummer? uestlove, who also produced Fell In Love With A Boy. A remarkable collection of top artists, fully committed to Stone's talent, who impresses with her mature voice and shows a maturity unprecedented for a sixteen-year-old. (IV)more
