Mama's Gun

Badu, Erykah

Genre: music4me > Urban > R & B

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 21 Nov 2000

Catalogue Number: MOT153259.2

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Description:
Jazz trumpeter extraodinaire Roy Hargrove was responsible for all the horn arrangements on MAMA'S GUN. "Booty"'s Crusaders-style horns and loose, funky rhythm nod to mid '70s R&B, and the guitar lines on "Bag Lady" could have come off a vintage Marvin Gaye album. With its delicate acoustic guitar textures, lush background vocals, and '70s-style keyboards, "A.D. 2000" occupies a classy middle ground between Sade and HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS-era Joni Mitchell. The album closes with the adventurous, suite-like "Green Eyes." The first section of the song finds Badu crooning in a '30s jazz-blues style over crackles that emulate a scratchy old 78. The second "movement" grows jazzier, led by flute and punctuated by acoustic bass lines and brush-strokes on the drums. The final section bears a more modern R&B feel, with syncopated rhythms and a carefully arranged horn section. Ultimately, Badu's self-description of an "analog girl in a digital world" proves highly apt on MAMA'S GUN.

Details:

Distributor: Universal Music
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2000

Track Listing:

1.	Penitentiary Philosophy
2.	Young and Beautiful
3.	My Life
4.	... & On
5.	Cleva
6.	Hey Sugah
7.	Booty
8.	Kiss Me On My Neck
9.	A.D. 2000
10.	Orange Moon
11.	In Love with You
12.	Bag Lady
13.	Time's a Wastin
14.	Green Eyes

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