The Righteous Ones

Toshi Reagon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 14, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B00000K29G
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,366 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Real Love

2. There Are

3. Happy and Satisfied

4. Like It That Way

5. Sweet in the Morning

6. Yes It Was

7. Drive It Home

8. Mean Old World

9. Livin After All (Big Mountain Blues)

10. This Moment

11. For You

12. Darling

13. I'm Just an Egg Don't Mind Me

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece., July 10, 2000

By 

Jonathan Lyness (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Righteous Ones (Audio CD)

I don't have enough words to communicate to you the energy, craft and passion that Toshi Reagon puts into this album. It's one of the best I've heard in the last several years -- the range of genres she builds upon is breathtaking, mixing rock, blues, gospel, 70s soul, and just about everything else. Her songwriting and performances are both moving on an emotional level, and high-energy enough to get your feet moving too! "Real Love" is an immediate standout, but virtually every song here has something to recommend it. Those who know about this album or who have caught her live are lucky indeed.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Righteous Ones Will Not Bore You, May 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Righteous Ones (Audio CD)

I heard this album palying in the background at my local Silver Platters. I had to have it.

"Real Love" builds slowly, and you know something big is going to happen. It does. Sweet Honey and the Rock kicks in and they are gone.

Next up is "There Are" great vocal work and a great groove.

"Drive It Home Tonite", you may not want to play on a first date, but more like around the second or third one. This would make Tina or Chaka blush. With envy.

Only a couple of clinkers, most notably the hyperfrenetic ending of "Like it That way". But she more than makes up for it on the bittersweet "Yes It was"

And all that happens on the first half of the album.

With as much genre-crossing blues/folk/gospel/rock as she does, Toshi Reagon has created a album that will appeal to a broad variety of tastes. And hopefully find some airplay as well. Highly recommended.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A treasure for those who love contemporary music, April 22, 2000

By 

rwsandqmi (Suitland, MD USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Righteous Ones (Audio CD)

Toshi Reagon is the daughter of Bernice Reagon Johnson, the co-founder and spiritual leader of Sweet Honey in the Rock, the all female, blues, gospel, soul, roots, rock, a capella group based in DC. Toshi's second release, "The Righteous Ones" is very much a music lover's kind of music - smart, well composed, well produced, unpredictable, thoughtful and funky.