Leon Bridges: Retro Soul/R&B..WOW.

I didn't say there wasn't. But are you suggesting there wasn't "feeling" in every Sam Cooke / Otis Redding song that sound nearly identical to these tracks?

 

Identical?

 

For anyone who wants to hear Leon's music stripped down, he did a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR a couple months ago.



http://www.npr.org/event/music/438545883/leon-bridges-tiny-desk-concert?autoplay=true

 

Fantastic...thanks for posting.

 

A couple of other songs performed via a session in acoustic format from earlier in 2015:

Mahogany Sessions (based out of the UK):

Coming Home:

Better Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q98lTr3Dapk

For Sunday Sessions:

River: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUEvfz7Izhs

For Sirius XM:

Coming Home (similar to the Mahogany Session): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGziIKh4HtQ

 

Those are great. Thanks!

 

I added a couple more to the original post. The one for "River" is especially beautiful.

 

Well, You Send Me (pop 1, R&B 1); he wrote it. Only Sixteen, he wrote that one too. Wonderful World, co-wrote it.

Chain Gang, Cupid, Twistin' the Night Away, Bring It On Home To Me, Having A Party, Somebody Have Mercy, Another Saturday Night, Ain't That Good News, Good Times, Shake, A Change Is Gonna Come; he wrote all of those - all of his signature songs.

He also wrote these when he was with the Soul Stirrers: Nearer To Thee, Be With Me Jesus, That's Heaven To Me; among others.

But then again, when did interpretive singing stop being a talent?

 

Not on the album , a track called Daisy Mae played at Bristol UK in July featuring some fine sax playing

 

Thank you!

 

well, well, well..the Tour is 100% sold out. The album wen to #6 on Billboard. All the naysayers can kiss the ring!!

 

Especially when you're the greatest to ever do it.

In my opinion.

Inarguably, he's in the discussion of greatest singers of all time.

 

Mr. Bridges will be appearing on Ellen Degeneres this week. Wow. That is a long way from washing dishes.

 

...or we can be genuinely happy that he's succeeding and leave it at that...LOL!

Ed (aka "King Naysayer")

 

Leon will be playing Saturday Night Live in the U.S. on December 5th. This is a good "get" for him (IMO) as it will be exposure to a fairly large TV audience that may not yet be familiar with him.

http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2015/11/leon-bridges-to-play-saturday-night-live-in-december/

 

He has a new song called So Long in the upcoming soundtrack to the Will Smith movie Concussion. Available for purchase now.

 

Finally borrowed this album from the library and think it's great. Very consistent and interesting. Feels like an album. Has anyone heard it on vinyl?

 

Listening to this now. Very cool.

Official free download. http://cominghometotexas.com

 

I splurged for the vinyl. In the days of high priced vinyl, this one is only $16.50 on Amazon.

 

Appearing on Saturday Night Live tomorrow night. The steady march continues.

 

Thanks! Stunning song.

 

"Let me be your cargo"

He did great. Awesome performances.

 

agree!

 

Pretty crazy timing that on the night after he did SNL that he'll be an hour south of where I live tonight. Unfortunately, I can't attend (although it sold out a few weeks ago, I think, even before the SNL announcement). Happy that he's getting some shine.