…Dear Lewis
“Dear Lewis,
I think I speak on behalf of at least some of my close friends, if I say we need you back…
How can it be, that a talent like you, with a velvet, scraping voice, in my opinion the best voice since I was starvin’ like Marvin, with that funky guitar touch is not spoiling us with his smoov soulful grooves anymore?
You obviously don’t know this, but me and some very close friends met you at an Incognito concert in Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands in november 1996. And as the acoustics are horrible in Vredenburg and you were opening for them, your sounds were strange; however, we did feel a strange kind of attraction to your songs… so we got to our favourite recordstore and got your album, after which we really understood what kind of amazing vision to new soul you had. In fact, your first album is up there with Brown sugar (d’Angelo), the first Badu and Plantation Lullabies (Me’shell NdegeOcello) in my humble, but passionate opinion.
I understand how you really got fed up by being labelled the new blue-eyed soulster and indeed, whether you are white, black or bright-purple, it is about the soul eventually.. hm.. I am still crazy about your jumping syncoping grooves on Lewis II. To be honest, the 2 Stoned-albums moved me less, but the first 2 are still continuously on my playlist. In fact, any chance I get, I tell everyone who wants to hear (and all those who don’t wanna hear, but I don’t care) about you. So sue me… (as I understand you don’t (wanna?) play anymore…)
So Lewis, thank you for those tunes and I hope you’re doing well. Maybe we’ll be able to enjoy you playing live somewhere in the future, maybe we won’t. Just know there are a lot of real appreciative people out here.
Warm regards,”
Anyway,if you like these couple of tracks, buy them at Amazon for example, as I feel any musical genius should get the appreciation and rewards for making music that makes you laugh, cry, move or sit still.
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From the album Lewis Taylor:
Lucky Bittersweet Whoever |
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From the album Lewis II:
Party You make me wanna |
For more information: http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/taylor-lewis-060208.shtml
Tags: lewis taylor, music, soul
