[情報] John Legend x The Roots
John Legend與The Roots合作的翻唱專輯「Wake Up」，預備於今年九月推出
曲目主要包括Marvin Gaye - "Wholy Holy"、
Roberta Flack - "Compared to What"、
Nina Simone - "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free"、
Donny Hathaway - "Little Ghetto Boy"、
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes - "Wake Up Everybody"...等
*"Wake Up Everybody" live @ The NAACP Image Awards http://is.gd/cbCxq
The Roots的新專輯「How I Got Over」將先在六月時發行
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The Roots, John Legend Refresh Sixties Protest Songs on 'Wake Up'
http://is.gd/cbACI
What started as a plan to reinvent one Arcade Fire song has become a full-
blown covers project for John Legend and the Roots, who are "90 percent done"
with a full album, ?uestlove tells Rolling Stone. "People tend to frown on the
cover album," the Roots' drummer says, "so I wanted to choose cover songs that
were so under the radar, so uniquely interpreted, that it would take you a
second to realize that these are cover songs."
In the end, the Arcade Fire song that inspired it all didn't even make the
final cut. Wake Up, due in September, will instead feature "songs from the
'60s and '70s," Legend says, "like protest songs, songs about social uplift."
Legend and ?uestlove didn't want to take on usual suspects like Marvin Gaye's
"What's Going On," so they selected "Wholy Holy." Other tracks off the beaten
path include "Compared to What" (by Les McCann and Eddie Harris, recorded by
Roberta Flack), "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (by Billy Taylor
and Richard Lamb, recorded by Nina Simone), "Love (The Way It Should Be)" (by
Prince Lincoln and the Royal Rasses), and "Little Ghetto Boy" (by Donny
Hathaway).
"I was trying to make something that was sample-able," ?uestlove says, "like a
'70s soul record." As Legend points out, "Some of it has been sampled. Pete
Rock and CL sampled 'Our Generation' years ago on 'Straighten It Out,' so we
did a new version of 'Our Generation' with CL."
Common guests on the album's title track "Wake Up Everybody" (originally by
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes) and Black Thought takes the lead on "Hard
Times" (by Baby Huey and the Babysitters).
"Everything is certainly inspired by the original," Legend says, "but we took
our own creative license with it."
One notable difference is that Legend's voice doesn't have his usual polish,
because ?uestlove urged him "to get dirty" this time around. "I wanted this to
be his worst performance ever," ?uestlove explains. "The side I wanted to
expose was very raw, so for every vocal take he did, I tried to choose the one
with the cracks."
While the Roots were recording covers with Legend, they were also working on
their own album, How I Got Over. Legend guests on two songs, "The Fire" —
which ?uestlove calls "a modern-day Rocky-like sports anthem" — and "Again"
from Legend's Once Again album. "We did 'Again' again," ?uestlove laughs.
?uestlove said that he thinks of the two albums as two sides of the same coin,
with How I Got Over dealing with what he calls the "midlife crisis of America,
" and Wake Up representing the more hopeful, inspirational side, "the spoonful
of sugar that helps the medicine go down." How I Got Over is slated to come
out first ("We're pushing for June," ?uestlove says) but is slightly less
finished than Wake Up despite the earlier deadline.
"We play it very close to the edge," ?uestlove says. "I won't turn in any
record before its time, before I get goose bumps and I get that feeling in my
tomach. I definitely have it with both albums."
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