Wake Up!
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John Legend & The Roots
Wake Up!
[ Columbia / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 24 September 2010
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A fiery new offering featuring evocative songs from the 60s and 70s, infused with sounds of gospel, rock and reggae inflections with hip-hop influences.
Musical powerhouses John Legend & The Roots present a fiery new offering, 'Wake Up!' The album features soulful music from the 60s and 70s, all with an underlying theme of awareness, engagement and consciousness.
The album contains eleven evocative songs infused with sounds of gospel, rock and reggae inflections with hip-hop influences. The album is highlighted by familiar tracks like "Wholly Holy" by Marvin Gaye and "Little Ghetto Boy" by Donny Hathaway mixed with the more obscure selections of Baby Huey and the Babysitters' "Hard Times", and "Hang on in There" by Mike James Kirkland. The album features one original composition, Legend's song "Shine".
Tracks:
1. Hard Times
2. Compared To What
3. Wake Up Everybody
4. Our Generation (The Hope Of The World)
5. Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude)
6. Little Ghetto Boy
7. Hang On In There
8. Humanity (love The Way It Should Be)
9. Whole Holy
10. I Can't Write Left Handed
11. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To BE Free
12. Shine
