Author: Keb'Mo'

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 2001-06-19

Details: Product Description Keb' Mo' and friends have created a truly unique album with positive images that should resonate with every listener - musically diverse and lyrically enriching! Tracks: "Everybody Be Yoself," "I Am Your Mother Too," "Infinite Eyes," "Flat Feet Floogie," "Big Yellow Taxi" and more. Amazon.ca Every photo included in Big Wide Grin's booklet has Keb' Mo' looking just as pleased as punch. The material on his fifth album is likewise overwhelmingly cheerful, a series of upbeat meditations on family life that, while occasionally idealized, are usually refreshingly realistic. It's this realism, the implicit understanding that families are frequently assembled out of far-flung components rather than adhering to some nuclear ideal, that makes Grin such a winner. That principle informs songs such as "I Am Your Mother, Too," addressed to an adopted child, and "Color Him Father," about the entrance of a stepparent into a family. The whole album is, in fact, a family affair, with members of Mo's family occasionally pulling background-vocal duty. Big Wide Grin is a summertime album for those still young enough to have the summer off. Fortunately, there's just enough bittersweet mixed in to keep the result from Pollyanna-hood. After all, what's the point of being reminded to count your blessings if you don't realize that that's what they are? --Genevieve Williams

UPC: 074646382929

EAN: 0078635832426

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: Used