Name: Electric Cowboy: Born in Carolina Mud par Boulevards
Brand: Boulevards
SKU: 607396103232
Price: 9.9 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 3.5 (84 reviews)

ALBUM

On his fourth Boulevards album, Jamil Rashad keeps backsliding Jeffrey Daniel-style across the R&B timeline and pivots to do the cosmic slop. Where the Raleigh native's first couple LPs most frequently recalled sparkling post-disco R&B of the early '80s -- Daniel's Shalamar were one of many reference points -- Electric Cowboy: Born in Carolina Mud builds on the '60s and '70s funk and soul moves of his third full-length. The 2020-issued Brother! EP turns out to have been a prelude more than a stopgap. Those four songs were written and produced by Rashad with Blake Rhein (of Durand Jones & the Indications), and Rhein here is deeply involved, as is fellow multi-instrumentalist/producer Colin Croom (of Twin Peaks), while smaller roles are filled by other vintage-sound specialists who are either members or associates of acts such as Black Pumas and Yola. Rashad is too lucid to be a truly spaced cowboy like Sly Stone, and isn't as animated as Bootsy Collins, but the work of those two artists -- and Parliament-Funkadelic -- clearly inform what Rashad has on offer. This is altogether the grimiest and moodiest Boulevards album with Rashad and company somehow maintaining a high level of appeal. Also different from previous Boulevards albums, Rashad sings with restraint the whole time, giving each line an air of secrecy and/or seduction -- almost as if he's self-conscious about breaking an unreasonable noise ordinance. The approach is fitting, with Rashad riding just above the warmly reverberant grooves and background voices to heady effect.

1. Turn

par Boulevards

Compositeur: Jamil Rashad
Colin Croom; Compositeur
Éditeur De Musique: Don't Funk With Groove (bmi)
Colin Croom Music (ascap); Autre

2. Together

par Boulevards

Compositeur: Jamil Rashad
Blake Rhein; Compositeur
Éditeur De Musique: Songs In Numerical Order (bmi)
Don't Funk With Groove (bmi); Autre

3. How Do Ya Feel

par Boulevards

Compositeur: Jamil Rashad
Colin Croom; Compositeur
Éditeur De Musique: Don't Funk With Groove (bmi)
Colin Croom Music (ascap); Autre

4. Surprise

par Boulevards

Compositeur: Jamil Rashad
Colin Croom; Compositeur
Éditeur De Musique: Don't Funk With Groove (bmi)
Colin Croom Music (ascap); Autre

5. Hooked

par Boulevards

Compositeur: Crofton Coleman
Jamil Rashad
Blake Rhein; Compositeur
Éditeur De Musique: Songs In Numerical Order (bmi)
Don't Funk With Groove (bmi)
Crofton Coleman Publishing Designee; Autre

6. Where Is Da Luv?

par Boulevards

Compositeur: Jamil Rashad
Blake Rhein
Colin Croom; Compositeur
Éditeur De Musique: Songs In Numerical Order (bmi)
Don't Funk With Groove (bmi)
Colin Croom Music (ascap); Autre

7. Better Off Dead

par Boulevards, Nikki Lane

Artiste Vedette: Nikki Lane; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Jamil Rashad
Blake Rhein; Compositeur
Éditeur De Musique: Songs In Numerical Order (bmi)
Don't Funk With Groove (bmi); Autre