{"product_id":"introducing-joss-stone-digi-w-dvd","title":"Introducing Joss Stone (Digi) (W\/Dvd)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e VIRGIN RECORDS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePartNumber:\u003c\/b\u003e 3 3 00388013\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Amazon.ca\n\nIn the run-up to this, her third album, Joss Stone told a phalanx of glossy magazines that the difference between this disc and the two that preceded it was a newfound clarity of vision. Whereas the other records--their gold status notwithstanding--represented the fumblings of a huge-voiced kid being bossed around by experienced music-biz types, this one, she promised, would reveal the real her. Thus, the titular \"introduction.\" To which anybody who spins the 14 groovy and fully unbuttoned tracks herein will wish to reply not \"nice to meet you\"--far too lame a sentiment for so fully realized a disc--but \"Where have you been all my life?\" As good as Joss Stone's previous efforts are, Introducing Joss Stone represents a giant step forward: there's a freshness to these songs that suits her age (19 as of the album's release) and a funkiness that suits modern pop sensibilities. There's also a cross-hatching of visions with artists like Lauryn Hill and Common that will rightly advance her reputation as an artist who can sling disco, R\u0026amp;B, and rock almost as convincingly as soul. Splicing girl-group harmonies with blaxploitation-style funk with Joplin-esque and, at times, Shelby Lynne-reminiscent vocals, Stone works these Raphael Saadiq-produced beats with the stealth and steadiness of a '70s-era legend who's still going strong. \"Girl They Won't Believe It,\" she wails against the tight hoo-hoo harmonizing of talented backup singers on the opening track; get a load of how much she's accomplished in the space of three albums, and you won't believe it, either. --Tammy La Gorce\n\nAbout the Artist\n\nJoss Stone has sold more than 7.5 million albums worldwide; been nominated for four Grammy Awards; appeared onstage with James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Patti Labelle, Mavis Staples, Donna Summer, and Smokey Robinson; sat for an interview with Oprah Winfrey; starred in two major ad campaigns for the Gap; and performed for more than 200,000 people at the 2005 Live 8 Concert in London -- all before reaching the ripe old age of 19.\nAnd yet, only now, on her third album, \"Introducing Joss Stone,\" does the British soul singer and songwriter feel she is expressing her true musical vision. \"This is the first album I've made that is truly me,\" she says. \"That's why I'm calling it Introducing Joss Stone. These are my words, and this is who I am as an artist.\"\nKnowing she needed to write the album alone, Stone decamped to the Caribbean island of Barbados in April to come up with lyrics. There, amid the sandy beaches and warm tropical breezes, she had an epiphany. \"I'm driving along in my car and I'm thinking, `Why am I going through life looking for unconditional love from a human being, when it's music that's unconditional?\" she says. \"It's always there for me. It's the love of my life. I've found it.\"\nThat simple realization became a major theme, both lyrical and musical, on Introducing Joss Stone, and it explains the album's electrifying mix of warm vintage soul, '70s-style R\u0026amp;B, Motown girl-group harmonies, and jazzy grooves performed by a live band conducted by Stone's main musical collaborator and producer Raphael Saadiq (known for his work with D'Angelo, The Roots, and Macy Gray). \"Raphael [who plays bass on the album] is the most mind-blowing musician I've ever met in my whole life,\" Stone says. \"Musically, I feel like he reads my mind. I'll give him a look and he'll know exactly what I want.\" Stone and Saadiq spent two months recording in the Bahamas, and then mixed the album at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City.\nFrom the time the Devon, England-bred Stone emerged on the music scene at age 16, she has always displayed a strength and intensity, despite insisting that back then, being so young, she didn't know what she was doing. Critics disagreed, calling her a singer who possesses a \"rich, deep, soulful belt,\" as the New York Post put it, and \"unlike any singer of her generation.\" In 2003, Stone released The Soul Sessions, an album of covers of obscure soul tracks, hit the road for a year, then recorded 2004's Mind, Body \u0026amp; Soul, her first album of original material. Of that album, Newsweek noted: \"Stone can croon it sad, deep, and throaty, belt it out juke-joint style, or get down and funky for the bump-and-grind crowd,\" while Interview heralded her \"gutsy voice, which can sting like aged bourbon, or melt like strap molasses.\"\nStone was nominated for three Grammy Awards in 2005, including Best New Artist, and performed a memorable tribute to Janis Joplin with Melissa Etheridge at the ceremony. Their rendition of \"Cry Baby\"\/\"Piece of My Heart\" was released as a single, and became Stone's first Top 40 hit in the U.S. That same year, Stone appeared on every American late-night and morning talk show, and scored magazine features everywhere from Rolling Stone to Vanity Fair as well as the cover of fashion bible Elle.\nStone will be no less busy in 2007, when Virgin Records rele\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 094638801320\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 0094638801320\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eModel:\u003c\/b\u003e 3 3 00388013\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e audioCD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedVeryGood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IDshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49771915280643,"sku":"4M-5DXQ-FOJP","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0030\/9765\/7390\/files\/61SL9J0wMtL.jpg?v=1791398904","url":"https:\/\/idshop.ca\/products\/introducing-joss-stone-digi-w-dvd","provider":"ID Shop.ca","version":"1.0","type":"link"}