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01/07/2009

Trevor's Album of the Week is Me'Shell Ndegeocello's Plantation Lullabies, a debut album which covers many genres, and confronts racial and sexual identity.

Trevor's Album Of The Week is Me'Shell Ndeg脙漏ocello Plantation Lullabies.

Me'Shell's debut album twists and turns through so many genres -- R&B, pop, jazz, hip-hop -- that it's hard to put a finger on just where she wants to take its 13 songs.
That she also spins conventional racial and sexual identity here makes Plantation Lullabies an occasionally overwhelming - as well as a vibrantly sophisticated - listen.

Ndeg脙漏ocello defies labels throughout, tagging her slinking and crawling songs with a rubbery flow that's just as rooted in 70s funky soul as it is in 90s hip-hop culture. It can be a bit derivative (for all of Ndeg脙漏ocello's genre-crossing, she always seems to go back to the same musical blueprint) but most of the time it's just about as boundary-busting and as affecting as 90s R&B gets.

1 hour

Last on

Wed 1 Jul 2009 22:00

Music Played

  • Maceo & the Macks

    Cross The Tracks

  • The Jackson 5

    Your Ways

  • Bluey Robinson

    I Know

  • The Impressions

    Gypsy Woman

  • War

    Slippin' Into Darkness

  • YOUR JAM

    • Viola Wills

      Dare To Dream

  • Teena Marie ft. Faith Evans

    Can't Last A Day

  • Nancy Wilson

    Call Me

  • Jackson 5 - Its Great To Be Here

  • Anthony Hamilton

    Comin' From Where I'm From

  • ALBUM OF THE WEEK

    • Meshell Ndegeocello

      Plantation Lullabies Montage

  • Meshell Ndegeocello

    I'm Diggin' You (Like An Old Soul Record)

  • B. Baker Chocolate Co.

    Snowblower

  • Asher Roth

    Fallin'

  • Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Jul 2009 22:00

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