From: Bob Davis (earthjuice_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 2005-03-20 16:23:56
Julie Dexter - "Conscious"
(Soul/Funk/Jazz)
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This is an album that I have been listening to off and on for the past month. It's definitely
become one of my "secret pleasures". Watching the career of Julie Dexter has become for me
something akin to slowly watching a flower bloom. Closed it looks like it might be average and
pedestrian, however slowly over time it blooms and becomes more and more beautiful. This is
some serious "grown folks music" that is both thoughtful and erotic. Serious lyrics of romance
and love, backed by by slow burning jazz/funk. Comparisons are always unfair, but I'll do it
anyhow. Does anyone here remember how they felt when they first heard Angela Bofil, Gabriella
Anders, Sade, etc...(Julie Dexter gives me that very same feeling).
This album represents in my mind what all of the failed attempts at "neo soul" aspired to, but
never quite measured up to. Of course the term "neo soul" is now out of vogue, but I'll take
it and use it for my own purposes. As a child of the 1970's I can say without any sense of
trepidation or fear that if this album had come out in say 1976 all of the rest of yall who
are "children of the 1970's" would have brought this album as soon as you heard it, rushed
home, carefully removed the album from it's sleeve and placed the pristine LP on the
turntable. Then after that first play, you would be on the phone to your friends to come on
over and listen. After hanging up the phone, you would then break out the incense and "iced
tea" fully confident in the knowledge that you were about to turn your friends on to a musical
treat that would soon send them scurrying down to the record store to repeat the very same
process that you had just gone through yourself. Taken as a whole all of the songs sound like
they could have easily been retitled "Adventures In Paradise Part 2". My favorite song on this
album is "Small Talk", I haven't heard horns used so effectively in a slow jam in a long time.
This is the best album I have heard so far in 2005 (we shall see if it stays there?)
Track Listing For Julie Dexter - "Conscious"
1. Choices
2. Like Ours
3. Look Who's Got Ya Back
4. A Place For Us
5. Show Me Now
6. Rhythms Daughter
7. Conscious
8. Small World
9. I See Colors
10. The Race
11. Rain Song
I fully realize that many of you out there are skeptical, and are saying to yourself (What in
the hell is Bob talking about i've never even heard of Julie Dexter)....But that's ok
(it won't be the first time that has happened)
Yall gotta get past that "I've never heard of artist XXXXX" mentality. I realize that may be
difficult for some of yall. But if you can't you are gonna miss out on some GREAT music.
If you are a person who falls into this category, I ain't mad at cha, but please do me a fava
by passing this review on to at least 10 other people that you know. Who knows, you just might
be turning your friends on to some music that might change their life, if even for just one
day. And for having done so, they will be eternally greatful (and you get some "extra karma
points")
This is one that you need to put on your short list of unknown artists that I asked everyone
here at the beginning of the year to COMMIT TO BUYING A CD FROM THEIR WEBSITE IN THE YEAR
2005.
We will be featuring Julie Dexter's new CD "Conscious" here
on Soul-Patrol.Net radio (www.soul-patrol.net) starting sometime next week.
The following week we will doing an email blast and having an online listening party in our
chat room.
I strongly urge yall to check these things out if you want to experience some BRAND NEW...
"Great Black Music From The Ancient To the Future..."
Julie Dexter - "Conscious"
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