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Noel Gourdin - The River ft. Arama Brown
Artist: Noel Gourdin
Producer: Kay Gee
Album: After My Time
Label: Mass Appeal Ent./eOne
The natural evolution of the R&B genre has seen its rhythm component gradually triumph over its counterpart, the blues; singer Noel Gourdin has taken a different approach. While his voice may sound like a mid-90’s R. Kelly, his approach to music is stuck somewhere in the early 70’s, when greats like Al Green and Marvin Gaye ruled the charts with their heartwrenching crooning and down-home melodies. In his debut single, The River (presumably referring to the Mississippi), Gourdin combines the themes of love, loss, and faith to create a track that could be just as readily performed from the pulpit as it could from the club stage. Aided by former Naughty By Nature member Kay Gee, The River and the rest of Gourdin’s debut album, After My Time (out July 22), will surely please vintage R&B fans everywhere.
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Man. This is a hot batch of songs tonite Z! Never heard of any of these guys, from the performers to the producer, but they all put it in! New favorite. I'm finna look for more from Noel. I was digging the whole joint. Real soulful!
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 2281 |
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This is a solid track. Real soulful. We need fresh music like this. Where's d'angelo at?
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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good song, heard it like 4 months ago though
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 868 |
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homie does sound like some of those old school r&b singers real good song rite here,BANGER
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 303 |
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A very good soulful rnb track, a bit old since I'm sure quite a few people have heard this a while ago. Good voice, but I don't think his throwback style will catch on well. At least that's not what the trend of popular rnb is going towards...
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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I think going back to the basics has been catching on lately for R&B artists; for example, Amy Whinehouse, Pure, John Legend, Janelle Monae, and Joss Stone have revitalized the traditional R&B/Soul sound. It's a great sound and I hope it continues. I thought this was going to be a duet with Arama brown like Marvin Gaye used to do with Tammi Terrell (those were classic duets). Anyways, Ms. Brown has a nice voice. Let me go check Noel's myspace page.
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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Aren’t you guys overrating this?!? 0_o Ok, he can sing, but that’s the only good thing I found in the song! The background music (violins) sounds exactly like a song I heard 8 years ago on a brazilian soap opera, the whole melody is just clichéd (I could anticipate every chord and the fluctuations on – someone already done them all). Too formulaic! This guy is only as soulful as his picture: not genuine (and yes, he could have that style and still soulful, but in this case, the style matches the artificial feel I got from this one)! One star for the vocals (good voice and singing potential) only.
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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this is fantastic, hands down amazing voice.
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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Holy, he does sound like R. Kelly. This is great stuff right here. This is much better then normal R&B songs nowadays. It's all club, a bit of soul in it always is nice.
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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i'm really feelin this old school style.
I can say i listen to old R&B because, although im young, my MOM loves al green, so since i was born i've been hearin him lol. anyway, i like the sound of this. its good 2 hear a NEW song with an OLD feel to it. So yeah. 4.5 stars. |
| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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dis songs iite its modern yet ole skool n ima big fan of ol skool musik. its in rotation
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 11633 |
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This is one of those "its too quite in the house, I need to throw some calm and relaxing music on" type-of-songs. I promise you paying bills, cleaning or doing homework will never be more relaxing... (if I am wrong, don't ask me to try any of them).
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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musiq twin
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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AHHHHH IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE... UH..UH IDK NOT BAD ITS GOOD ROTATION
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| Posted on May 20, 2008 |
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| Posted on May 21, 2008 |
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maaaan, this song makes me feel sad =( I love it but because I feel down now it only gets 3.......
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| Posted on May 21, 2008 |
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nice
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| Posted on May 21, 2008 |
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| Posted on May 21, 2008 |
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Suck suck suck!!
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| Posted on May 21, 2008 |
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This is an amazing song! The old school vibe and great vocals make it such a smooth and easy song to listen to...how can you say this sucks? give me this over 99% of the stuff i hear today! hopefully this catches on with R&B; we need a passionate track like this to drown out the usual garbage
(4.5...but since ingrida gave it a 1, im giving it a 5 instead of a 4) |
| Posted on May 22, 2008 |
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He has a really good voice, he does his thing for sure...but sorry I don't like the song, it's boring!! it could not be bad, but it's not my type at all!
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| Posted on May 22, 2008 |
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The most amazing:) Love this song....!!!!!!!
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| Posted on May 22, 2008 |
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uhhhhhh DIS aint 4 me- it's aight tho.
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| Posted on May 24, 2008 |
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This is beautiful it has such a great vibe.... sounds like that boy grew up singing in the church like a dirty south hardwood floor no air conditioned church this is a great song
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| Posted on Jun 20, 2008 |
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nice feelgood vibe
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| Posted on Jul 23, 2008 |
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agreed with .Slowly.. im feelin this kinda
musiq soulchild-raheem devaughn-anthony hamilton thing.. im givin 5 starz |
| Posted on Sep 02, 2008 |
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