In the year 2000, D'Angelo released Voodoo—with some help from Questlove, Angie Stone, Raphael Saadiq, and a band of jazz veterans—an album that has cast a long shadow with its unique sound of stripped-down soul, Faith Pennick, who literally wrote the book on the record, joins to break how D'Angelo broke the "shiny suit" regime of R&B, explore how he conjured the spirits of J Dilla, Prince, and Roberta Flack, and consider how one video almost derailed his career.
Check out D'Angelo's Voodoo by Faith Pennick, from Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Series
Songs discussed:
- D'Angelo - The Line, The Root, Spanish Joint, Chicken Grease, Untitled (How Does it Feel)
- Rev JC Burnett - Amazing Grace
- Prince - Kiss
- Justin Timberlake - Damn Girl
- Thundercat - Them Changes
- Slum Village - CB4
- Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola - There Used to be a Nightclub There
- Roy Hargrove - Strasbourg / St. Denis
- Solange - Cranes in the Sky
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