Name: Steady Groovin'
Brand: Blue Note (Label)
SKU: 821705
Availability: OutOfStock

Steady Groovin'

By Soulive

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Format

CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Release Date

29 March 2005

Album: Steady Groovin'
#	Song Title	Time
1)	One In Seven
2)	Flurries
3)	Ron, El
4)	Solid
5)	Clap!
6)	Dig - (live)
7)	Doin' Something
8)	Alkime
9)	First Street - (live)
10)	All Up in It
11)	Golden Lady - (previously unreleased)

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EAN

0724356397521

Writer

Soulive

Producer

Soulive, DJ Spinna, Eli Wolf, Yaron Fuchs, Bob Brockman, Soulive, DJ Spinna, Eli Wolf (Compilation)

Country

USA

Studio/Live

Studio

Guest Artist

Black Thought; DJ Spinna

Label

Blue Note (Label)

Dimensions

12.9 x 14.9 x 1 centimeters (0.06 kg)

Performer Notes

Soulive: Neal Evans (Hammond b-3 organ, keyboards); Eric Krasno, Alan Evans.
Personnel: Tariq Trotter (vocals); Eric Krasno (guitar); Sam Kininger (alto saxophone); Jacques Schwarz-Bart (tenor saxophone); Jeremy Pelt (trumpet); Fred Wesley (trombone); Neal Evans (Clavinet, keyboard bass); DJ Spinna (synthesizer); Alan Evans (drums).
Additional personnel: Black Thought (rap vocals); DJ Spinna (programming).
Recording information: Applehead Studios, Woodstock, NY (10/2000-12/2002); Avatar Studios, New York, NY (10/2000-12/2002); Chung King Studios, New York, NY (10/2000-12/2002); House Of Blues, Chicago, IL (10/2000-12/2002); Irving Plaza, New York, NY (10/2000-12/2002); Thingamijig Lab, Brooklyn, NY (10/2000-12/2002); Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA (10/2000-12/2002); Woodstock, NY (10/2000-12/2002).
Collecting the jam bandy instrumental funksters Soulive is a great idea, since most people with passing interest in music know someone "way into them" and have probably come across a glowing review of their live shows. Then there's problem of whether you start with a live album or a studio album or a remix album or an album with plenty of guest spots. Steady Groovin' gives the newbie a smattering of them all, plus a couple numbers you won't acquire when you succumb to their Hammond organ-based funk and head back to the record store. The breezy and freewheeling "All Up in It" comes from the band's guest spot on DJ Spinna's Here to There, while the band's cover of Stevie Wonder's "Golden Lady" was only available on the Japanese edition of Soulive's Doin' Something. These are great bonuses, and what the compilers chose to represent the band's regular albums is pleasing, too. You get a taste of Soulive's live show, a bit of the band's work with Fred Wesley, and a touch of cerebral hip-hop courtesy of Roots member Black Thought. All that said, their traditional albums have a lot of thought put into the overall flow, but as an intro or portable sampler, Steady Groovin' succeeds. ~ David Jeffries