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 The Hard Way - James Hunter
 The Hard Way - James Hunter ... Tracklisting1 The Hard Way 2 Tell Her 3 Don't Do Me No Favours 4 Carina 5 She's Got A Way 6 Til The End 7 Hand It Over 8 Jacqueline 9 Class Act 10 Ain't Goin' Nowhere 11 Believe Me Baby 12 Strange But True Newest Review: ... 60s with his simple but effective brand of old school soul. The lyrics are catchy and sung with gravel, the topics are ... more ... quite "sweet" and typical of times when artists sung about girls and common situations rather than trying to make things too complicated.
The music has a touch of blues about it and James Hunter manages to pull off a fairly impressive voice that sounds like a mixture of Otis Redding, James Brown and Sam Cooke with a dash of Ray Charles thrown in. James Hunter kind of makes you question why more artists don't sing like this today, combining melodic notes with a bit of gravel perfectly.
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Release Date: 2008 - 05 - 05, Audio CD, Hear Music / UCJ Last Update 27.11.2009 05:48
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The Hard Way - James Hunter: How did I miss this! Putting soul back into soul! (332 words)
by - written on 11/08/09 (Very useful, 18 readings)
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My first album review of the day from acts that took part in Glastonbury and what a way to start it. I have to say my hopes of this album being good were quite low because R&B and soul these day tends to be a whiney high-pitched mess with dire lyrics and ironically no soul - James Hunter however is a complete exception and takes the listener back to the 50s and 60s with his simple but effective brand of old school soul. The lyrics are catchy and sung with gravel, the topics are quite "sweet" and typical of times when artists sung about girls and common situations rather than trying to make things too complicated. The music has a ... Read the complete review
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