The Groove Divinities

The Groove Divinities Artist: The Groove Divinities
Label: Do Right Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 735231787429
EAN: 0735231787429
ASIN: B000BHN7NY


Release Date: 2005-10-11

The Groove Divinities


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Tracks:

  1. Lie To Me
  2. Methodonia
  3. Neopolytan
  4. Turnaround
  5. American Thang
  6. Playin' Yer Soul
  7. Bleedin' Heart
  8. Don't Leave
  9. Tomorrow
  10. Jail
  11. World Turns
  12. Mainline
  13. Change Gonna Come

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This disc's thirteen songs point back to various pivotal moments in classic soul music history........2005-11-22

The Groove Divinities is what happens when Kenni Ski's powerful vocals are matched to Jimmy Sloan's inspired guitar work. These studio veterans did not go for any sort of modern music sheen here. Rather, this disc's thirteen songs point back to various pivotal moments in classic soul music history.

Ski comes off particularly Sam Cooke-like during "Don't Leave." Then to drive this significant influence home even further, the disc closes with "Change Gonna Come," which was one of Cooke's signature songs. Not everything here sounds like something you've heard on R&B oldies stations, however. "Lie To Me," for instance, finds Ski sounding like a dead-ringer for Paul Weller of The Jam fame. Furthermore, it's not all R&B, either, as "Jail" is a guitar rocker made to order for The Black Crowes, and "Methodonia" has a distinctly Stones-y swagger driving it. Sloan's guitar work, as you might have guessed by now, is all over this disc. Still, "Playin' Yer Soul" is underpinned by some nicely rollicking piano work.

Of course, if you're not old enough to recall soul music's 60s and 70s heyday, all of these stylistic clues will likely mean nothing to you. Even so, if this CD's modern take on older musical values makes even a few folks want to dig back into the vintage stuff, it would make this revivalist spirit worth all the effort.

Certainly, there was something truly divine about all those great Stax, Motown, and Philadelphia International grooves. This act, unquestionably, digs into these sounds beautifully.

-- Dan MacIntosh, Indie-Music.com

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. In the Eye of Time
  2. Blue Electric Cool ~ Curtis
  3. Swept ~ Julia Fordham
  4. Welcome to the Pleasuredome ~ Frankie Goes To Hollywood
  5. Surf Fever 2000 ~ The Supertones
  6. The String Quartet Tribute to Incubus, Vol. 2: New Skin
  7. Boys Life ~ Boys Life
  8. Nothing Is Static ~ Headboard
  9. Paris ~ Supertramp
  10. The Very Best of The Bachelors ~ Bachelors

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Total Eclipse ~ Billy Cobham

Colors of a Band ~ Pete Herbolzheimer

The Man ~ Herbie Mann

Too Much To Late

Birdland Stars 1956 ~ Various Artists

Straight from the 6th Ward ~ Various Artists

Leia ~ I Muvrini

Meia Noite ~ Maria Creuza

Chuushingura Greatest Songs ~ Various Artists

Mission 1 ~ Jet Sets