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Mar 21, 2017An artist well suited to take center stage, Ruthie Foster has more fully and forcibly arrived.
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Apr 4, 2017She may have been through the ringer recently, but she's choosing to be positive--or, as she sings on Shawnee Kilgore's "Abraham," "When I do good/I feel good"--and that gives Joy Comes Back a relaxed richness that's quite restorative.
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Mar 28, 2017It finds her expanding her palette while resulting in her most diverse offering yet.
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Mar 21, 2017Foster makes them all her own through her through her strong vocals and distinctive phrasing. She has a commanding presence and a nuanced sensibility that she learned in church as a young girl. You could say the music here is truly the rock of ages.
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Mar 21, 2017The album’s eclectic nature never feels random. Rather, it highlight’s Foster’s natural inclusive qualities and showcases an artist who, nearly two decades into her recording career, has refined and elaborated her vision of empowered redemption, both of which are in full flight on the superb Joy Comes Back.
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Mar 22, 2017So Joy Comes Back might be on your shopping list, especially if you're already a Ruthie Foster fan, but take this advice: It's only half a great album, so keep it on the B side.
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MojoMar 21, 2017Covers include The Four Tops' Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever cooked into greasy Southern soul, and the title track, where, backed by Derek Trucks on slide guitar, she delivers the hymnal straight. [May 2017, p.96]