Roachford [Import]

Roachford | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 1988)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Columbia Europe
• ASIN: B0000264SH
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #403,694 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Album Highly Uncharacteristic For It's Era, November 9, 2010

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Andre S. Grindle "Andre' Grindle" (Brewer Maine) - See all my reviews
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It's very seldom that I come across an album that just doesn't ring a bell to me at all. Having absolutely no name recognition with multi instrumentalist singer/songwriter Andrew Roachford I didn't have any idea what to expect from this at all. When this album dropped in 1988 it was a time when most R&B artists were based in some variation synth funk or new jack swing/hip-hop based styles and it seemed that only people such as Anita Baker or Englands Fine Young Cannibals and Terence Trent D'Arby were offering much in the way of an alternative. What Roachford offered here,the name refering to a trio headed by the man himself was as an active participant in this musical reaction against the R&B sounds of it's era. And one of the things he got right about this album was the most important thing:the production. While this album is based very squarely in traditional R&B song structures featuring some slippery guitar/bass riffing and blues harp solos he also borrows freely from production elements of the period such as echo and reverb. In particular on this front is the song "Kathleen" with it's stop/start midtempo rhythm and jazzy chord changes. Same goes for the more uptempo closer "Nobody But You" but one might also be surprised at something else about this album. As bands such as Living Color and Mother's Finest continued to mine the whole "black rock" ethic it's interesting to find no funk/metal hybrids on this album but instead vibrant rave ups such as "Give It Up","Family Man",No Way" and "Shotgun (Crazy World We Live In)",all songs that feature a rolling shuffling beat and plenty of guitar riffing but are actually mainstream late 80's pop/rock aside from the bluster implied. Perhaps no one in the black community since Ike Turner had fully explored the idea of slickly produced pop/rock and Roachford were one of a small number of bands during this time actually looking to do that and considering the relative early arrival of this album may in fact have been pioneers to a degree. The 70's and 80's were filled with many largely unexplored directions throughout all angles of the R&B,soul,rock,funk and jazz spectrums and even though many of those artists exploring those directions had huge popular successs late in the 1980's Roachford could be said to be one that just may have gotton away from us.

4.0 out of 5 stars Roachford still sounds good, July 29, 2008

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K. Marcotte "book goddess" (Orland Park, IL) - See all my reviews
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I bought this album on tape when it first came out and I eventually wore it out. I was really happy to find it on CD. I forgot how good the songs were. The man knows how to write a song. It's an upbeat album and you'll like it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Yea Roachford, December 23, 2007

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Andrew Roachford is very talented. I first purchased this record on cassette back in the 90's and had lost it somewhere along the way. I can't express my excitement enough to find that it was available on CD. If you like rockin' soul, this is a perfect CD for you.