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- Artist(s): James Hunter
- Summary: The latest full-length release for the British R&B/soul artist was recorded live to eight-track tape by Gabe Roth.
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- Record Label: Daptone
- Genre(s): R&B
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Feb 2, 2018While that's brief by 21st century standards, it's plenty and proper on a collection of songs framed in kinetic, inspired performances by one of the greatest soul bands to emerge in decades.
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Jan 24, 2018From the heartfelt rhumba of I Don’t Wanna Be Without You and the title track – the perfect showstopper for the Harlem Square Club crowd--to Blisters, a captivating shuffle, and How Long, a going back to church blues, every song’s a winner.
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Jan 24, 2018Whatever It Takes will please existing fans more than create fresh adherents. There is nothing new here. Hunter and company dig a deep groove. The heavy musical rhythms both tie Hunter up and set him free.
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MojoJan 24, 2018This terrific follow-up [to 2016's Hold On] captures the sparks again, and there are plenty of them. [Mar 2018, p.97]
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Feb 1, 2018It’s infectious stuff, right from the opening bars of “I Don’t Wanna Be Without You”, a languid shuffle of organ and saxes, with occasional castanet flourishes accenting the rumba groove.
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UncutJan 24, 2018His second Daptone album swings like Sam Cooke, sways with rocksteady cool, and is as stylishly '60s as a pair of fur-lined Chelsea boots. [Mar 2018, p.27]
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