Music

October, 2001

Big Wide Grin (Sony) is Keb' Mo's family CD, with songs by Gamble and Huff, Bill Withers, Slim Gaillard, Sly Stone and Stevie Wonder. There's one for his dad (Color Him Father, updated to make the hero a stepparent) and one for his mom. But the best material is Seventies soul converted to sly blues, especially the O'Jays' Love Train, Withers' Grandma's Hands and Sly's Family Affair.Godmusic (V2), the second album by Chocolate Genius Marc Anthony Thompson, is dark, funny and idiosyncratic. As the...

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