New Birth never has, and never will let you down, this CD is Hot!!!
author: Robin Russell (original New Birth Drummer)
The setting is warm, the flow is smooth. Leslie and Melvin's vocals are as strong, soothing, and powerful as ever. Barney Thomas has done an excellent job of caputring and re-creating the New Birth sound, it's full of love and life. If you love New Birth, you will love this CD!!!
RR: cdbaby.com/robinrussell
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THIS CD IS NO DOUBT WHAT MUSIC IS TODAY YESTERDAY AND YEARS TO COME
author: JANICE SENEGAL
THIS CD IS NO DOUBT SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE YOUNG AND OLD - NEW BIRTH IS THE TRUE MEANING OF THIS CD --
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Super Classy Soul for 2004
author: Barry Towler (Soul Express)
Leslie and Melvin return to spearhead the rejuvenated New Birth for 2004. What the gents serve up here is a delicacy of real soul with a traditional basis and a modern twist. No ersatz R&B grooves here. Chunky, funky and romantic flavours are the order of the day. Fun Is In The Chase, Workin' On You, Ten Toes Up, Hey Girl and To The Light are just what the doctor ordered. This is an essential purchase. CD Baby come up trumps yet again!
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author: 'In The Basement' magazine (David Cole)
New Birth are back in the guise of long-term stalwarts, Leslie and Melvin Wilson, supplemented by Sean ‘Barney’ Thomas, who also co-produced with the brothers and was responsible for the instrumentation. Given the reliance on just a one-man-programmed background, the guys were very brave to revisit their #1 r&b hit version of Dream Merchant but they actually make a satisfactory enough job. (The upbeat, funky Comin’ From All Ends also blasts back at the past not perhaps quite so well.) There are some nice ballads on here, with or without an added beat, most notably Workin’ On You, to which can be added Fun Is In The Chase, You Know You Want Me and To The Light. There is also Ten Toes Up and if I add the words from the song: ...and ten toes down, the rhythm is so good, you’ll know what that’s all about! Hey Girl is a pleasant toe-tapper but the contemporary handclapper, Ballin’ and the percussion-backed, mid-paced Mo’ Deep, featuring Sean Thomas, are rather sub-par. The whole closes with some happy-clappy gospel in the shape of Mighty Rock. What knocks this cd completely for six, however, and makes one reassess just how good the set really is, is the (unwise?) inclusion of In My Lifetime, a 1985 recording from the days when New Birth was a ten-person line-up. A fulsome slowie in classic New Birth fashion, it left me wanting more like that and ultimately less satisfied with the rest than I might otherwise have been.
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