 MARVIN SEASE - HOOCHIE MOMMA | CD REVIEWMarvin SeaseHoochie MommaUS Jive CD, 19991) Hoochie Momma 6:30 2) Is It Over 3:50 3) Ain't Nobody In The Bedroom 5:56 4) Don't Forget To Tell On You 4:36 5) Thanks For Loving Me 6:19 6) I'm Still Waiting On You 4:39 7) I Wanna Do Something For You 4:23 8) You Must Be Crazy 4:16 9) Don't Come Around 6:53 10) I Can't Believe 3:54 11) Let Me Hold & Squeeze You 4:05 Marvin Sease has locked himself in a situation where on each album he has to offer at least one gritty, (more or less) funky item with a 'selling' title and guaranteed controversial lyrics to catch the attention of a certain sector of his marketplace. Once you get over the title song of his fifth Jive album, Hoochie Momma ('99) - produced, arranged and written by Marvin - you are treated to some of the finest rootsy soul around. Similarly to his previous set, The Bitch Git It All, after the opener there's a steady flow of either smooth and touching slowies, or hooky and loose mid-pacers. (Or to be exact, there's one sharp and funky dancer, Ain't Nobody In The Bedroom, stuffed in-between). "In my shows I do both. My uptempo is very effective, but it's just so dramatizing when I do the ballads to the public. I would have to say I mostly do the ballads, though." The set is engineered by Eric Perkins. "He's my keyboard player and engineer, an up-coming talent." Is It Over is a great "old school" soul ballad - the type we usually connect with Frank-O or Johnnie Taylor - and together with I Can't Believe and Don't Forget To Tell On You, a song about a telltale mistress, they are the most impressive cuts. "My particular favourite is Don't Forget To Tell On You. It's also the first single. We're presently waiting to see what that single does. Then we're gonna come back with either Bedroom or the title track, Hoochie Momma." Downtempo domination stretches out to three softer yet pretty slowies, Don't Come Around, You Must Be Crazy and Thanks For Loving Me. "I overheard a man telling a woman on the phone 'baby, I just wanna thank you for loving me' and I wrote about what I heard." Three catchy and floating mid-pacers (I'm Still Waiting On You, I Wanna Do Something For You and Let Me Hold & Squeeze You) round things up for what definitely is going to be my top-ten record this year. "Next I'll do a live CD and a video. They should come out maybe March next year. For the live CD the big question I have to deal right now is, what state and what city." Heikki Suosalo Back to our home page |
