The Soul Sessions - Joss Stone
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74 out of 100

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7.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: A 16-year-old white British girl singing covers of American soul classics? Odd as it may sound, that is the recipe for a hit, as evidenced by this debut album for Dover, England teenager Joss Stone, who tackles works by everyone from Aretha Franklin to, well, the White Stripes.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    Thing is, Joss Stone does have an extraordinary voice, and the only misguided ploy on The Soul Sessions is a Roots-produced slo-mo cover of a White Stripes tune.
  2. Mojo
    80
    There's no denying the intuitive understanding Stone has of the often daunting material she tackles. [Mar 2004, p.104]
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  3. Dot Music
    80
    It's a record that benefits from the homogenous, warm feeling such an intimate set-up can make for, the tracks setting up Stone's remarkable voice rather than intentionally distracting from the singer's limitations.
  4. Uncut
    60
    She has all the signifiers of deep soul experience: the husky, rich timbre; the confident testifying; the honeyed transitions. But the ruefulness, grime and pain... aren't there. [Feb 2004, p.73]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. BigGirl
    10
    She's the next Aretha and Natalie Cole.
  2. ChrisJ
    8
    Candi Stanton?! You f*cking prat! Cracking voice, good songs, and she's English!
  3. VictorB
    7
    Very well done! I won't comment on the fact that Joss Stone is white and sings 'black' because everyone is doing that these days. Joss Stone took mostly old soul standards and held her own in singing them, no small feat when you see the American Idol finalists barly able to pull off one song of this caliber. In however efficient Joss Strone is in taking us to 'back in the day' she never takes us anywhere new except on the reworking of "Fell in Love With A Boy". Nothing else gives us a reason to buy this disc and not a remastered one by the original artists. … Expand
  4. izata
    3
    Lame... lame... overrated.... boring... one of the worst album i bought... stoooooopid!!!!

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