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D’Angelo and the Legacy of Voodoo (with Faith Pennick)

D’Angelo and the Legacy of Voodoo (with Faith Pennick)

20 years ago, D'Angelo stripped down the sound of soul

Switched on Pop · Vulture

March 31, 202043m 44s

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Show Notes

In the year 2000, D'Angelo released Voodoo—with some help from Questlove, Angie Stone, Raphael Saadiq, and a band of jazz veterans—an album that has cast a long shadow with its unique sound of stripped-down soul, Faith Pennick, who literally wrote the book on the record, joins to break how D'Angelo broke the "shiny suit" regime of R&B, explore how he conjured the spirits of J Dilla, Prince, and Roberta Flack, and consider how one video almost derailed his career.

Check out D'Angelo's Voodoo by Faith Pennick, from Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Series


Songs discussed:

  • D'Angelo - The Line, The Root, Spanish Joint, Chicken Grease, Untitled (How Does it Feel)
  • Rev JC Burnett - Amazing Grace
  • Prince - Kiss
  • Justin Timberlake - Damn Girl
  • Thundercat - Them Changes
  • Slum Village - CB4
  • Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola - There Used to be a Nightclub There
  • Roy Hargrove - Strasbourg / St. Denis
  • Solange - Cranes in the Sky

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