Toshi

Toshi Reagon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 23, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B0000640MX
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,762 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Toshi Reagon and Big Lovely ROCK, August 29, 2002

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Dana Collins (Crown Point, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshi (Audio CD)

I saw Toshi and Big Lovely at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in August and they were my favorite band of the festival. I danced the entire time they played and was completely mesmerized by their strong, contemporary, rocking, and unique sound. I was completely impressed and that is why I searched for their new cd to purchase. If you love rock, funk, soul, blues, you will love Toshi Reagon and Big Lovely.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get your big love, July 17, 2002

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Peter Hentges (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshi (Audio CD)

I caught Toshi and her band live at the Winnipeg Folk Festival this year. First, in a small workshop stage where she traded songs with other artists and generally brought down the house and kept the energy of the session up nearly single-handedly. Later, she opened the final day of the main stage show.

She is a powerful woman who drives that power through her voice and her guitar, reaching into your gut and making you dance like a marionette, rage like a lover wronged or cry like little baby.

Her backing band members support and expand her talent. From the screaming funk of lead guitar to the enourmous presence and steady drive of bass guitar, the band is tight enough for you to feel why they are called Big Love.

Her pedigree only begins to tell you about the soul of this woman. Toshi is gospel, funk, soul. Toshi is a force to be reckoned with.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Big Love. Big Sound. Big New Album., June 1, 2002

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notaprofessional "notaprofessional" (san francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshi (Audio CD)

This broadly gifted and incredibly down-to-earth dynamo has a few albums out, and this is the third in a row to knock my socks off. Toshi Reagon has a big voice and a perceptive mind-her music is rock, folk, blues, beautiful. There are tracks like "Slippin' Away", "I Hate/I Love", "Positive Information", and "Big Love"and "Oh No No No" that really rock and pop. Then there are tracks like "Mountain Top" and "Ballad of the Broken Word" that start of fairly folksy, then build and boom, and blues-belt. The lyrics (her own with a notable exception) are full of meaning, insight, rage, love, and truth.

The last track is a cover of a Cars song; "Just What I Needed" is pure pop in its original, but Toshi's cover is slow, sobering, gentle poetry--like a still fountain by candlelight.

Toshi Reagon is a particularly gifted artist, and this album is arguably her best yet-and certainly a strong indication of good things to come. There's a song for many different moods here, so you can keep it in the player for days.