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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Virgin Records Us
Salesrank: 2176
Released: March 20, 2007 |
| Our Price: $5.74 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Introducing Joss Stone Track Listing:
1. Change (Vinnie Jones Intro)
2. Girl They Won't Believe It
3. Headturner
4. Tell Me `Bout It
5. Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now feat. Common
6. Put Your Hands On Me
7. Music feat. Lauryn Hill
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 Outro
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Description of Introducing Joss Stone:
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
Introducing Joss Stone Reviews:
Never Again, Sorry Joss 
2009-09-27 - I realize this review is a couple of years overdue but I think everyone should know about the copy restriction on this CD. I had heard some of Ms. Stone's previous work on the radio and from friends. After seeing Stone being interviewed on every talk show imaginable I bought this CD with the intent of listening to it on my IPOD as I do every CD I own. I guess the joke was on me because there is software on the CD which prevents the CD from being loaded into Itunes. This infuriated me to the point that I've never actually listened to CD. Sorry, Ms. Stone and Virgin records, but this is unacceptable to me. As a librarian and a consumer I believe in the right to make a backup copy of anything I buy as long as it is for my own use. You've violated my rights. I am done with you.
Joss's Introduction 
2009-08-14 - Joss is a very strong female singer. She can sing some blues and used some good music on her introduction CD
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2009-05-19 - Not as good as I hoped but still worthwhile. She's much better live than in the studio.
Joss Stone: A Piece Of Her Heart
2009-04-11 - I think I know where the spirit of Janis Joplin ended up: in England, inside Joss Stone. Many of her vocal characteristics remind me of Janis, but her voice is smoother, "prettier". She sounds both classic-old and hot-new. She sings sensual R&B in a way that should make current American pop/soul singers hang their heads in shame.
Most of the tracks frame that strong lead voice with back-up singers, disco strings, horns and mellow R&B guitar. The difference in the tracks lies in the specific format applied to each, using that basic arrangement. "Girl They Won't Believe It" is breezy, very upbeat. "Headturner", "Tell Me 'Bout It", "Put Your Hands On Me" and "Baby, Baby, Baby" are also upbeat but with loud, hard drumming, more in a rock vein. "Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now" and "Proper Nice" are slower, I would say mid-tempo ballads, retaining the generally strong sound. "Music" (featuring Lauryn Hill) and "Bad Habit" are bluesy, again with the strong sound intact. "Arms Of My Baby" has a 60's vibe, updated for the now. "Bruised But Not Broken" is a ballad that is slower and more serious than the previous ones. Nonetheless, the prevailing mood of the album is on the light side, until we reach "What Were We Thinking". This, my favorite of the slower tracks, is a soul ballad in old-school style, as Joss pours out her misery over the breakup she knows is coming. The final "outro" is a short, less structured melodic piece like those found on Mariah's and Christina's albums.
What's so amazing to me is that the young Ms. Stone sounds like a seasoned woman of the world, and she is 22, and the album was released 2 years ago! Today, in fact, is her birthday, so, Happy Birthday, Joss!
AH-MAZ-ING 
2009-01-27 - Joss Stone is absolutely amazing. Just listen to the samples she has such a great voice. she was only 19 when she recorded this!!!
