Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Right To Be Wrong
2. Jet Lag
3. You Had Me
4. Spoiled
5. Don’t Cha Wanna Ride
6. Less Is More
7. Security
8. Young At Heart
9. Snakes & Ladders
10. Understand
11. Don’t Know How
12. Torn & Tattered
13. Killing Time
14. Sleep Like A Child
15. The Right Time (from GAP ad)
16. God Only Knows (from GAP ad)
17. Calling it Christmas (duet with Elton John)

Disc 2:

1. You Had Me
2. Right To Be Wrong
3. Spoiled
4. Don’t Cha Wanna Ride
5. Mind Body & Soul EPK

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18482 in Music
• Released on: 2005-11-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Special Edition

Amazon.co.uk Review
Stone's debut delved back into the deep Southern roots of the 1970s, but now Mind, Body & Soul is dedicated to original material. Joss features as co-writer on nearly all of its songs, with veteran singer Betty Wright still retaining a strong influence as co-producer and vocal coach. Stone's old-style grittiness remains intact, but there are moves to surround her emotive voice with a modernised R&B setting. Stone's highly respected team includes keyboardists Benny Lattimore and Timmy Thomas, and drummers Cindy Blackman and ?uestlove (from The Roots). Joss has also collaborated with Lamont Dozier and Portishead's Beth Gibbons. The opening "Right To Be Wrong" lays down the gauntlet of independence, riddled with pricking guitar fills, surging organ and subtle horn swells. The banal "Jet Lag" and "Understand" are her least inspiring efforts, the latter featuring some of the album's worst lines ("I keep our song on repeat/On my iPod, even when I sleep/And in my dream I'm holding you/Alone on an island, just we two"). Stone's lyrics are trite throughout, but they're merely a vehicle for her intense vocal expression. Several tunes are spoiled by clumping drum programs, but even within this context, Stone's voice rises higher. The album's first single, "You Had Me", could be coming straight from Destiny's Child. The compulsive reggae lope of "Less Is More" would be a wiser choice. "Security" might be an MOR ballad, but even this ascends towards its conclusion--Stone backed up by an incendiary guitar solo. Her voice is always mixed suitably high, and ultimately it's Stone's sheer vocal prowess that makes this album succeed. --Martin Longley

Album Description
Following the amazing success of The Soul Sessions, Mind, Body & Soul is the first album of original material from 17-year-old Joss Stone. This is her first self-penned material, and the 15-track album includes the brilliant single, "You Had Me".

CD Description
Second album from teenaged Dover soul diva follows 2003's 'The Soul Sessions'. Originally conceived as her debut beforethat album took over, this is more a contemporary pop-RnB album, albeit emboldened somewhat by the raw, soulful swaggerof Stone's voice, which has seen her dubbed "the new ArethaFranklin". With Stone co-writing most of the tracks, it includes the single 'You Had Me'.

Customer Reviews

A Teenager From Devon With A Voice From Philadelphia
As a young teenager, Joscelyn Stoker was rejected by many record companies, most of which said that there was no way that they would sign up a young white girl with the voice of a mature black woman. She then fell at the door of S-Curve Records boss Steve Greenberg who took a gamble with her. With a new name and her own unique style, Joss Stone exploded onto the popular and soul music scene with her own take on The White Stripes' Fell In Love With A Girl and more importantly, her debut album The Soul Sessions. Although the album received some praise, it was recorded in four days and contained mostly cover versions. For her second album, Joss Stone has had the chance to take her time and ensure that the album really displays her stunning musical talents.

Mind, Body & Soul starts off well but slightly deteriorates as the album progresses. The reason for this being that like so many other albums, all the singles have been placed at the start of the album leaving us with a very unbalanced set of music. The album in general displays varying styles and adaptations of popular and soul music and has a consistently strong set of songs throughout despite one. Right To Be Wrong and Spoiled are beautiful, mellow songs which show signs of being inspired by Aretha Franklin. Don't Cha Wanna Ride wavers towards the James Brown style of soul and despite its interpretation by the more perverted listener, has no metaphorical message whatsoever. Jet Lag, Security, Young At Heart and Killing Time are all entertaining songs that just don't quite top the ones mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, there also has to be a negative side to the album.

You Had Me is similar to Oasis' Roll With It and David Bowie's Rebel Rebel in that they weren't written to fit the style of the rest of the album, they were written to guarantee record sales and chart success. Based on that song alone, Joss Stone is just another in a long, long line of teenage pop stars chosen to make manufactured music more because of their sex appeal than their ability to sing. You Had Me is probably the biggest let-down of the album. The other strong negative factor is bizarrely the overuse of her voice. Joss Stone has a superb vocal ability which sounds fantastic in her songs but she doesn't need to make noises which sound more orgasmic than anything else at every available moment.

Fortunately, the album is not being judged on that one song alone and Mind, Body & Soul is an entertaining, groundbreaking recording that is a strong improvement on its predecessor. With any luck, Joss Stone will improve with age and come back with something even better next time round.

superb delivery - shame about the material
This selection is a little disappointing as a follow up to the Soul Sessions. The young Ms Stone has one of the most outstanding voices in the business currently. Unfortunately her songwriting is not so well developed as her delivery - musically this is fine, making many references to standards such as she performed on the previous album but the lyrics are somewhat weak in places(although she may rank as the first person to include reference to the i-pod in a lyric). That said the strength of her vocal performance is sufficient to carry even the weakest of lyrics, making this rank as one of the best albums of 2004, worthy of more than four stars but not quite the perfect five.

The potential that Joss has is undeniably vast - it is hard to see how her voice can mature as it is already developed beyond what could be expected of her years and when her songwriting catches up she will have the world at her feet.

Rush out and buy this.

Awesome!
Joss Stone surpised us all with her Debut-Album "The Soul Sessions". The 16-year-old girl with the voice of a 40-year-old soul-singer doesn't have to show on her second LP that she is a talented person.
The difference between "Mind, Body & Soul" and her first CD is that Joss Stone co-wrote the 14 new tracks. "The Soul Sessions" only included songs by artists like Laura Lee, Joe Simon und Soul Brothers Six.
If you listen to her new single "You Had Me", you will realize that it is rather pop than soul-music. "Right To Be Wrong" and "Spoiled" are soul-ballads we are used to hear when we listen to Joss. "Don't Cha Wanna Ride" is one of the faster tracks on the album and reminds of "Super Duper Love". "Jet Lag" could be a R&B-ballad by Destiny's Child.
To sum this up, Joss Stone presents a many-sided album consisting of soul, pop and R&B-music.