Album
Plantation Lullabies
1993 · Hip Hop, Jazz
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Plantation Lullabies is a Soul & Funk album by Me'Shell NdegéOcello, originally released in 1993. On Gatefold: 25 pressings tracked.
About
Me'Shell Ndegéocello's debut album twists and turns through so many genres -- R&B, pop, jazz, hip-hop -- that it's hard to put a finger on just where she wants to take its 13 songs. That she also spins conventional racial and sexual identity here makes Plantation Lullabies an occasionally overwhelming -- as well as a vibrantly sophisticated -- listen. Ndegéocello defies labels throughout, tagging her slinking and crawling songs with a rubbery flow that's just as rooted in '70s funky soul as it is in '90s hip-hop culture. The best songs here -- "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)," "Dred Loc," and "Outside Your Door" -- work their way into their grooves with a seamless, and almost uniform, bounce. It can be a bit derivative (for all of Ndegéocello's genre-crossing, she always seems to go back to the same musical blueprint), but most of the time it's just about as boundary-busting and as affecting as '90s R&B gets.
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Tracklist
- 1Plantation Lullabies1:31
- 2I'm Diggin You (Like An Old Soul Record)4:25
- 3If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)4:31
- 4Shoot'n Up And Gett'n High4:14
- 5Dred Loc4:05
- 6Untitled1:41
- 7Step Into The Projects3:54
- 8Soul On Ice5:08
- 9Call Me4:45
- 10Outside Your Door5:08
- 11Picture Show4:38
- 12Sweet Love4:54
- 13Two Lonely Hearts (On The Subway)4:16
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Neo-Soul
- bassheavy
- laid-back
- nocturnal
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Andre BettsDRUM PROGRAMMING
- David GamsonDRUMS
- Bill SummersBONGOS , PERCUSSION CUICA, PERCUSSION PERCUSSION , CUICA
- Bobby LylePIANO PIANO , SOLOIST SOLOIST, PIANO
- Byron JacksonBACKING VOCALS
- David FiuczynskiACOUSTIC GUITAR GUITAR
- Geri AllenPIANO
- James PrestonPIANO
- Joshua RedmanSAXOPHONE TENOR SAXOPHONE
- Luis ConteCONGAS
- Me'Shell NdegéOcelloDRUM PROGRAMMING
- Melvin "Wah Wah" WatsonGUITAR
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 25 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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