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Smokey Robinson - Pure Smokey Audio CD

A fair review of the Smokey Robinson "Pure Smokey" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Smokey Robinson reviews here, or go back to the Smokey Robinson tabs.

Smokey Robinson Band: Smokey Robinson
Title: Pure Smokey
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Release Date: 2006-08-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: It's Her Turn to Live 2: Love Between Me and My Kids 3: Asleep on My Love 4: I Am I Am 5: Just Passing Through 6: Virgin Man 7: She's Only a Baby Herself 8: Fulfill Your Need 9: Tattoo

pure smokey
It dose not compare to "A Quiet Storm" but good just the same. This LP from the 70's is good. Smokey's voice is great here. .


Smokey at His Best
Pure Smokey is a wonderful CD full of incredible music. .
Smokey is fabulous in this CD. . . Highly recommend this for all serious Smokey Robinson Fans.


some kinda wonderful,classic
i recommend it to all fans of smokey robinson, her turn to live,awesome. i bought this album in 1974, and have enjoyed it ever since, as the album insists its PURE SMOKEY, one his first albums since leaving the Miracles. great collector cd. (Siufu . . . ).


Just Pure Smokey
'Pure Smokey' is such a wonderful album (and Smokey has MANY) that George Harrison named a song after it on his Thirty Three & 1/3 album (which sounds GREAT next to something like this). Sometimes an album title is a total misnomer but NOT in this case. On this recording Smokey reflects on his family and a mature side of romance with a variety of soulful textures,styles and tempos. "It's Her Turn To Live" starts out with a rather unusual note for smokey-a wah-wah driven funk excursion outside his usual ballad style but still brimming over with his great love poetry and class,forever shedding anyones misconceptions of funk grooves as songless musicians excersises. On the classic "Virgin Man" Smokey furthers the same approch,only on a deeper funk level and those two songs are just chillingly lovely-the sweetest funk this side of Marvin,Curtis,Isaac and Barry. Along the way he offers off steaming bowlfulls of his classic mellow soul stylings on the surprisingly pointed and unsentimental please "The Love Between Me And My Kids","I Am I Am","A Tattoo" and "Just Passing Through",which is a truely unsung classic for that "should've been a big hit" group of Motown songs. Taken with this there is plenty of slow ballads here too such as the tender "Asleep On My Love","Fullfill Your Need" and "She's Only A Baby Herself"-a song I think may actually be a reflection on Smokey's extra marital affair around the same period but I don't know. But no matter how you take it,this was to my knowledge OOP for many years and Motown has gladly made it available again and at a reduced price. So my recommendation?Pick this up with A Quiet Storm and enjoy!Music seldom gets much better then this!.


*****TRULY BEAUTIFUL*****
I RECOMMEND THIS CD BE APART OF EVERY OLD SCHOOL LOVERS MUSIC COLLECTION. I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO GET THIS CD AND SMOKEY'S FIRST SOLO RECORDING CD (SMOKEY) A FEW YEARS AGO & I PROTECT & CHERISH THEM & INSURE THEM AS PART OF MY PRIZED MUSICAL POSSESIONS EVERY TRACK IS COLD BLOODED!!! OLD SCHOOL & FOR CONNOISUIERS OF FINE MUSIC LIKE MYSELF I PLAY THE ENTIRE CD FROM START TO FINISH. . THANK THE LORD FOR GIVING ME THE EARS TO HEAR SUCH SWEET MUSIC & APPRECIATE A WONDERFUL TALENT LIKE SMOKEY. . . .


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