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| Personnel Teena Marie keyboards percussion drum programming Alia Rose Verline Beard Demetrice O Neal Tracy Hazzard Bridgette Bryant vocals Doug Grigsby Stan Davis guitar keyboards percussion drum programming David Starks Wali Ali Ray Fuller Morris O Connor guitar Jeanette Harris woodwinds brass horns William Artope horns John Bokowski keyboards Brian Kilgore percussion James Allen drum programming Audio Mixer Erik Zobler Liner Note Author Alia Rose Recording information Rosie s Room Pasadena CA Arranger Teena Marie Several overdue reissues and the archival First Class Love were released within a couple years of Teena Marie s passing A bigger surprise came in January 2013 when UMe issued this the artist s 14th and final studio album Its recording had been completed prior to Lady T s death proud daughter Alia Rose a singer and MC who appeared on La Do a Sapphire and Congo Square saw it through the mixing and mastering process As Teena did on those fine 2000s albums she weaves her exceptional songwriting skills with instrumentation that is both organic and synthetic complementing her own playing and programming with input from several longtime instrumentalists Likewise she celebrates her inspirations in explicit and subtle fashions The first song and lead single Luv Letter pays tribute to her Motown roots and cleverly references her daughter s father with nods to Please Mr Postman and Signed Sealed Delivered I m Yours A Curtis Mayfield cover Give Me Your Love one of two songs featuring Alia glistens and most resembles the Barbara Mason version Elsewhere Teena quotes Barry White and the Stylistics as well as herself and even references A Tribe Called Quest She does this while remaining utterly contemporary as if modern R amp B production moved her as if revisiting her classic past sounds was never considered There s a wide range of material but the plush and yearning ballads - |
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