Re: K-ci Jojo Album Torrent
Aladino Bharudin
The discography of K-Ci & JoJo, an American R&B duo made up of Cedric and Joel Hailey, consists of five studio albums, five compilation albums, fifteen singles, and fifteen music videos. K-Ci & JoJo were originally the lead singers of the R&B group Jodeci before signing a record deal with MCA Records.[1] In 1997, they released their debut album, Love Always. In the United States, Love Always peaked at number five on the Billboard 200,[2] and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart[2] and was certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[3] Internationally, the album reached the top 50 on the Swiss,[4] Canadian,[5] and Australian Charts,[6] and appeared on the UK[7] and Swedish Albums Chart.[8] The album produced four singles, including the multi-national number-one song, "All My Life".[6][9][10]
In 1999, K-Ci & JoJo released their second studio album, It's Real. It peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200,[2] number two on the R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart,[2] and was certified platinum by the RIAA.[11] Internationally, the album reached top 20 on the Dutch Mega Album Top 100,[10] the Canadian Albums Chart,[5] and appeared on the New Zealand Top 40 Albums[12] and the Australian Albums Chart.[6] The album spawned four singles, including "Tell Me It's Real", which peaked at number two in the US on the Billboard Hot 100. The duo's third studio album, X, was released in 2000. The album peaked at number twenty on the Billboard 200,[13] number three on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart,[14] and was certified platinum by the RIAA.[15] The album also appeared on the New Zealand Top 40 Albums[12] and the Dutch Mega Album Top 100.[10] The album produced three singles: "Crazy", "All The Things I Should Have Known", and "Wanna Do You Right", with the first peaking at number eleven on the Hot 100.[9]
Edd said: If Forever My Lady was a turning point for 90s R&B, Diary of a Mad Band is when the pedal hit the metal. Jodeci cut ties with New Jack Swing entirely and forged ahead with their brand of hip-hop soul, making them THE bad boys of R&B. Embracing soul, sexuality and street swag, Diary of a Mad Band became the blueprint for every male R&B group in its wake. It still stands as one of the most influential albums in R&B history.
One of the most popular duos of modern R&B, K-Ci & JoJo, is back with an incredible new single, 'Knock It Off.' The song makes an immediate impression as an instant R&B classic. K-Ci & JoJo (brothers Cedric 'K-Ci' Hailey and Joel 'JoJo' Hailey) new album My Brother's Keeper delivers the classic R&B sound that has garnered them hit after hit. The duo has seen much success as one half of R&B group Jodeci, and as a duo. As K-Ci & JoJo, they have released five studio albums to date, plus a successful greatest hits album and numerous singles for theatrical films.
The fourth K-Ci and Jo-Jo album, Emotional, was released on November 26, 2002, but failed to find commercial success. K-Ci and JoJo released a greatest hits album on February 8, 2005. They are believed to have teamed back up with DeVante Swing and Mr. Dalvin for a Jodeci reunion album.
Jodeci released three platinum albums, Forever My Lady, Diary of a Mad Band and The Show, The After Party, The Hotel, and went on to win three Billboard Awards in 1992 and two Soul Train Awards, in 1992 and 1994.
Il duo debutta nel 1996 registrando il brano How Could You per la colonna sonora del film Bulletproof, ma il loro primo successo arriva a luglio quando collaborano con 2Pac nel brano How Do U Want It, che arriva alla prima posizione della Billboard Hot 100. Nel 1997 viene pubblicato il loro primo album Love Always, che arriva alla sesta posizione della Billboard 200 ed alla seconda della R&B Albums.[3] Il singolo All My Life estratto da Love Always rimane per tre settimane in vetta alla Billboard Hot 100.[4]
Negli anni successivi il gruppo pubblicherà altri album: It's Real (1999), X (2000), Emotional (2002) e Love (2008), destinato al solo mercato giapponese. Nel gennaio 1999 il gruppo ha vinto un American Music Award nella categoria "gruppo soul/R&B preferito".
Group formed in Charlotte, NC, 1997; signed with Uptown Entertainment/MCA as members of Jodeci, 1990; released debut album with Jodeci, Forever My Lady, on Uptown Entertainment/MCA, 1991; released debut album, Love Always on MCA, as K-Ci & JoJo, 1997; released X, 2000.
The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (commonly shortened to Makaveli) is the fifth studio album by Tupac Shakur, his first posthumous record and the last released with his creative input. Recorded in seven days in August 1996, it was released on 5th November, 1996, almost two months after his death, under the stage name of Makaveli, through Death Row Records, Makaveli Records and Interscope Records.
The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory debuted at number one. It is his only album released under the new alternative stage name and features guest appearances from his rap group Outlawz and rapper Bad Azz, as well as R&B singers Aaron Hall, Danny Boy, K-Ci and JoJo, Val Young and Tyrone Wrice, along with uncredited vocal contributions from reggae musician Prince Ital Joe.
By the early 1970s, Willie Nelson was already a country success. His songs had been recorded by Patsy Cline ("Crazy"), Faron Young ("Hello Walls") and Billy Walker ("Funny How Time Slips Away"). But Nelson, with his marijuana and his shaggy red hair, had had a harder time making it on his own in Nashville. And so when his house there burned down in 1970, Nelson moved away from the country music capital to his home state, settling down in Austin, Texas. His luck didn't seem much better there: He signed to Atlantic Records' Nashville division and released two albums before the whole division went under.
The arc of Nelson's career, and, one could argue, the legacy of Austin, changed 25 years ago. In 1975, after signing to Columbia, Nelson assembled a seven-piece band -- two drummers, a pianist, a harmonica player, a pair of guitarists and a bass player -- and set out to record an epic tale of a wandering preacher: The Red Headed Stranger from Blue Rock, Montana. Compared to the overblown orchestral country records that were popular at the time, it was an odd little album, just over 34 minutes long, full of two-minute instrumental rags ("Down Yonder") and minute-long interludes. The songs were here and there: "Red Headed Stranger" is an old Edith Lindeman-Carl Stutz number that Nelson used to sing to his children to woo them to sleep, and Fred Rose's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" was previously recorded by both Elvis Presley and Gene Autry.
When Columbia chief Bruce Lundvall got the album, he figured, as he says in this reissue's liner notes, "It may not be an important commercial record by Willie, but it'll be a valuable catalog album. And everyone thought it was nice." "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" ended up making a dent on the pop charts, and the record sold 2 million copies within a couple of years of being released; today, that number is over 3 million.
Willie Nelson was finally a star. And in the past 25 years, Austin has become somewhat of a star as well. For bucking against the biggies, and making a spare, personal album in a time of slick excess, Nelson is now a wizened uncle of Austin outlaws and musicians spurned by Nashville -- musicians like Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. And Austin claims it is home to as many aspiring bands per capita as any city in the country. It remains one of the few American cities where locals pride themselves on the music scene, where the newspapers cover music like other papers cover sports and where dinner and a live band is a perfectly normal Saturday night date for adults.
"Red Headed Stranger" begins with six cascading chords, played on bass, acoustic guitar and piano. Then the musicians cut out for Nelson's first line: "It was the time of the preacher/When the story began." The entire album works like this. Songs seem to have no beginnings or ends -- they just waft out of the air. Later, as Nelson is singing "Can I Sleep in Your Arms," all the instruments cut out except a barely perceptible piano. As Nelson begins singing again he's joined by a single picked note on guitar, then a pair of notes, then a bass line, then the whole band. It's as if more than one instrument would clog the majesty of the moment.
Roughly, the album tells the story of an itinerant preacher whose lady left him; the album follows him as he wanders across the Old West and finally finds redemption in a new love. Billy Callery's "Hands on the Wheel" marks the exact moment: "And with no place to hide/I look in your eyes/And I found myself in you/And I feel like I'm going home."
This Columbia reissue, part of the second batch of Columbia/Legacy's "American Milestones" series (other new titles include albums by Johnny Cash, the Carter Family, George Jones and Johnny Horton) includes four bonus tracks, if you count a 35-second riff on Bach's "Minuet in G" as one. Hank Williams' "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" is slightly jauntier than most of the album, and it's nice to hear. But it's the quick shuffle of "Bonaparte's Retreat," with its refrain -- "So I held her in my arms/And told her of her many charms" -- that is the best addition. With Mickey Raphael's otherworldly harmonica moaning like the wind blowing through a screen door and Bobbie Nelson's brisk piano, "Bonaparte's Retreat" is an example of how Nelson can take a song and really own it -- a skill he would ride to the top of the country charts with "Stardust" later in the decade.
In the last 10 years, Nelson has returned to the flowing beauty of "Red Headed Stranger" with near-perfect albums like 1998's "Teatro." Now 67, Nelson still lives in Austin, and still throws an annual Fourth of July barbecue, a fitting fete to celebrate a small musical revolution that ended up creating a little colony down South.
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