Afro Strut [Extra tracks]

Corinne Bailey Rae, Amp Fiddler | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Play It Again Sam
• ASIN: B000UZ4FFG
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,731 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Faith

2. If I Don't

3. Not

4. Find My Way/Afro Strut (Interlude)

5. Hustle

6. You Could Be Mine

7. Right Where You Are

8. Hey Joe

9. Ridin'

10. Scared/Afro Butt (Interlude)

11. Heaven

12. Come See Me

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A retro rare-groover?, November 21, 2007

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gizgoogmai (London, England UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Afro Strut (Audio CD)

For over a decade, Brit-rock has proclaimed its green credentials by recycling at least 50% of its material and repackaging it as if it were completely original.
By contrast, contemporary Afro-American music's sample culture fetishises reconditioned old licks and beats, while offering much more genuine novelty.
Joseph "Amp" Fiddler is the exception who proves the rule.
A Detroit veteran of George Clinton's p-funk unit, his second solo album, but for a cod-ragga toast on "I Need You", could well have teleported in from the mid-1970s.
Referencing Gil Scott-Heron in the jazz-funk meditation "Right Where You Are", August Darnell in the zoot-suited "If I Don't", Marvin Gaye in "Hustle", Sly Stone in the bone-dry click-track drums, p-funk in the rubber bass and synths, and Shuggie Otis in the spare, stoned melodiousness, Amp also boasts a fine, smoky singing voice and a way-cool pimp hat.
If Jamiroquai could concoct a hit career out of a lot less, why not this retro rare-groover?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strut Afro Strut, December 15, 2009

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Music Mama "Ms. Nita" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Afro Strut (Audio CD)

Excellent CD. I didn't realize Amp Fiddler had a 2nd release...I had the pleasure of meeting him at SOB's for the JDilla memorial concert....His is serious. A must have..

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Deal, January 22, 2008

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Keith R. Jackson (Silver Spring, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Afro Strut (Audio CD)

This is one of the best R&B albums I have heard in literally maybe ten years. It has everything. Dirty funk, smooth R&B, dance R&B ala Luther...

Great production, great musicianship. Great keyboard playing. Lyrics for adults. This album (and this artist) is one of those missing links that people just don't about.

It is guys like him who are actually passing along the music at a real, in the studio, level to the younger R&B cats in the the industry.