Product Description

The third album from the West Country's favourite soulstress is the long-awaited follow up to 2004's 'Mind Body And Soul'. 'Introducing Joss Stone' is a deeply personal album, which features more of Stone's trademark mix of soul, jazz and Motown with a 21st century twist. Recorded in the Bahamas and produced by Raphael Saadiq (The Roots, Macy Gray), the album also features guest appearances from Common and Lauren Hill and includes the single 'Tell Me 'Bout It.'

Track Listing

1. Change - Stone, Joss & Vinnie Jones
2. Girl They Won't Believe It
3. Headturner
4. Tell Me 'Bout It
5. Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now
6. Put Your Hands On Me
7. Music
8. Arms Of My Baby
9. Bad Habit
10. Proper Nice
11. Bruised But Not Broken
12. Baby Baby Baby
13. What Were We Thinking
14. Music

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3696 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-12
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
In the run-up to this, her third album, Joss Stone told a phalanx of glossy magazines that the difference between this disc and the two that preceded it was a newfound clarity of vision. Whereas the other records--their gold status notwithstanding--represented the fumblings of a huge-voiced kid being bossed around by experienced music-biz types, this one, she promised, would reveal the real her. Thus, the titular "introduction." To which anybody who spins the 14 groovy and fully unbuttoned tracks herein will wish to reply not "nice to meet you"--far too lame a sentiment for so fully realized a disc--but "Where have you been all my life?" As good as Joss Stone's previous efforts are, Introducing Joss Stone represents a giant step forward: there's a freshness to these songs that suits her age (19 as of the album's release) and a funkiness that suits modern pop sensibilities. There's also a cross-hatching of visions with artists like Lauryn Hill and Common that will rightly advance her reputation as an artist who can sling disco, R&B, and rock almost as convincingly as soul. Splicing girl-group harmonies with blaxploitation-style funk with Joplin-esque and, at times, Shelby Lynne-reminiscent vocals, Stone works these Raphael Saadiq-produced beats with the stealth and steadiness of a '70s-era legend who's still going strong. "Girl They Won't Believe It," she wails against the tight hoo-hoo harmonizing of talented backup singers on the opening track; get a load of how much she's accomplished in the space of three albums, and you won't believe it, either. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

Joss Redeemed
The lead singer of Roxette was once described by Radio 1 as "All the right things in all the right places, but simply does nothing for you......." Exactly my opinion of Joss Stone until now.
Previously contrived and corporate, indulgent and just plain overdone, this album comes billed as the artists retreat into herself before emerging with confidence and not giving a damn what the "suits" she works for actually think. No bubblegum, no hopeful homages or corned covers here, just a supremely well matched collection of honest R'n'B. This album is alive with original, focused, emotively musical cuts with both edge and solidity. The production job is superb, clean rich bright without ever overly glossed at one extreme or too urban at the other. Your ears will like the result and not just for art's sake. You can dance if you want to, but this is way above the I-Pod class and deserving of close listening attention with the world turned off.
For me "Bruised but not Broken" stands out and demostrates this creation was intended to be delivered by no-one else but Joss Stone. I was previously hugely critical of an immature (vocally) soul wannabe, but "Introducing" shows she deserves to live with the best. Read the guest list. Four years ago you couldn't have begged Lauryn Hill to come down to Stone's level, today they play in perfect harmony.

Few albums actually sound like they have achieved their objectives thereby earning the "accomplished" description. This one does and stands comparison with the best releases of 2007.

Accepting Joss Stone and Amy Winehouse occupy opposite ends of the alleged "soul" spectrum you'll have to decide for yourself which of the two floats your boat, but If judged alongside BACK TO BLACK, Winehouse should worry.

What a waste!
Another example of indulged Diva in the vein of Mariah Carey! An undeniably talented and exciting new artiste whose first album blows us all away and consequently we buy it by the bucket load creating a monster who is able to dictate to her label, and record/produce future albums of her own choice making fools of her fans in the process. Apparently this is the 'real me' and what's gone before was forced on her, forgetting that what was imposed on her is what made her a star. I have wasted money buying this CD and wont make the same mistake again with her future product - shame is I can't even put it in my re-cycle bin and help make something useful of it - on second thoughts, it definitely belongs with the grubby, soiled trash, useless to one and all.
A sad ex-fan.

Introducing Joss Stone
OMG!! What are you guys talking about!!
Disappointing NOT. This is a great album, i just can't put it down.
You guys just don't know good music. Joss Stone is the best thing that ever came out of Britain for ages. Every track is just quality.