Mama's Gun

So, here's the deal... take Badu off this album and it's a groovy slice of funky gold. Badu's uninspired, lazy (and at times really harsh) vocals, however, are slathered over on the groove, covering the flavor like ketchup on a fine steak. Every song's vocal lines are nearly identical, substituting lazy, mostly monotone vocals for true melody. I think she's probably capable of more than this but, for some reason, she decided to just phone it in. The saving grace of the vocal element is the lyrics which are pretty smart on the whole and which, along with the super tasty backing tracks, save this album from a lower-than-average score.

I was hitting next in the middle of each track and half the time I wasn't sure if I really was on the next track.

If I was currently undertaking the task of compiling my 101 favourite albums of all time--inspired by, for example, a commitment to listen to, rate and review 1,001 albums from The Canon--I can imagine Mama's Gun would be a conundrum. Should I include it? There's so much to like. It has the intangible quality of making you want to restart the album as soon as it's over; not because it's a hooked-filled sugar rush, but because Badu's sound is tantalising, a tease, there then not then there again. But for that reason, is there *enough* of it to occupy a whole spot on my list? (I'm speaking, of course, hypothetically. Merely riffing on an idea that just popped into my head.) When she says, "you won't be naming no buildings after me", it's not just because she's a black woman (okay, it's mostly that), but because any Badu building would only be structurally sound half the time. Her buildings, like her songs, would be beguilingly simple feats of engineering, held up with the barest of resources. Then they'd turn to jelly and, er, uh-oh. To decide, I'd need to listen to it two or three times. I might even get an extra opportunity through my extensive (imaginary, you understand) canonical appraisal. But even after that, I imagine I still won't have settled--just like Mama's Gun.

Funky soul. It's one of those albums where I wish there were more recognizable melodies, and more background instruments. It's one of the reason's I'm not the biggest Beyonce fan--I want the background to be just as interesting as the voices.

Goddamn this is dull. All the songs are bland and blend into one mass of yawn. BT: Penitentiary Philosophy, Didn't Cha Know, Bag Lady

I'm not the biggest fan of R&B, but Mrs. Badu's magic drips from this record.

Very pleasant but unremarkable. If I had a posh dinner party to host I could play it to show how cool I am. A low 3.

This took me three days to get through. One of the most miserable experiences I've had, nearly 300 albums in. I'm not a fan of the genre, but can generally appreciate artistry/talent. This one I really struggled to find anything redeeming about. Inane lyrics bellowed dramatically over pedestrian jazz licks.

This album SLAPS. What a sweet, laid back, groovy 2000's R&B vibe. Definitely coming back to this one!

Albums like these are the most unfairly affected by the method in which I consume them: at work. I can't always focus on lyrics, which I think is likely where this album would shine. Musically, sure, it was soulful, even groovy at times, but it's often pretty barebones too. Ms. Badu has a lovely, smooth voice, but I'd have appreciated more active instrumentation. The songs (and the album itself) also go on just a little too long without much diversity to break things up. I acknowledge the album as an R&B classic, but it didn't do all that much for me.

Melted into the background. and all warbling sounded the same to me in the end. One line that stuck out, “I have green eyes because I eat vegetables”. She has brown eyes on the album sleeve. Sorry for being glib.

Wow, this one blew me away. Erykah Badu is legendary but I've yet to hear an album from her. This was fantastic, each song bleeding into the next. Reminded me of Dark Side of the Moon, and funny enough when I was doing some Erykah Badu research she lists Dark Side of the Moon as one of her top 10 albums of all time. The grooves on here are undeniable, so many tracks that I loved and will surely return to. Also special shout out to the sample on Bag Lady, the same sample used by Dr. Dre on Xxplosive the year prior. It's a long album, but the length doesn't bother me because it's so smooth. How refreshing to have an album from this century, from a black woman nonetheless, and it's better than a lot of the old foagies we get from across the pond. Just like I did with Dark Side of the Moon, I'm preemptively giving this a 5 star. It can only improve with further listens. Favorite tracks: No idea how to narrow this down, but Didn't Cha Know, My Life, Cleva, Kiss Me On My Neck, Bag Lady, Time's A Wastin'. Album art: Really like the font and framing here. Obvious throwback, and a bit unassuming, but I think it fits the vibe of the album really well. Little do you know how impressive the music within will be. 5/5

funky and mad rhythm right off the bat. this album grooves so hard. Kiss Me On My Neck is a good groove. Yea this album slaps

She's such a badass. And this album is so good. Funky and soulful.

So very groovy and seemlessly interesting

So very very long. Sadly it turns the listen into a chore and while I didn’t necessarily dislike the album, there was very little on there that would make me go back for for 2nd listen

What a voice! This is lyrically, instrumentally, and produced so uniquely. The album gets much better in the later half. Worth revisiting for sure. For that alone it's getting the highest honor: adding to my spotify favorites.

No disrespect to Erykah Badu, this is a fine album, but the 70 minute, CD-era album just doesn’t work for me anymore. If there’s one thing I’m realizing through out the course of this list is that there’s nothing better than a 40 minute lp. Otherwise, Mama’s Gun is a fun and funky album, even if it runs a little too long for my taste.

As is often the case with the albums listed here, what starts with the promise of freshness quickly deteriorates into the repetitive.

I think I've been conditioned to fall asleep when Badu comes on, a flatmate used to play it to relax at nap times. Ir doesn't really go anywhere or do anything, it's just there making random noise like a ticking clock.

Just nothing special, way too long and not memorable

Made it half way through. Sorry. Not my style at all. 'Booty' finished it for me. Not sure what I'm meant to be getting from this.

I’m at a 10, even with one mild flaw to the album in my mind. Much like Janelle Monae back in March, Erykah Badu is one of those R&B artists that’s just escaped me, for almost no reason at all. I’ve definitely heard her before, since she’s done a number of features over the years, but this is my first full Erykah Badu album. It’s the only one on the list, and it’s one hell of a pick – I fucking loved this. It’s hard not to point to “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” at some point while listening to this, but I think that does both albums a disservice. Erykah Badu is not Lauryn Hill, and while their musical sensibilities & production styles might be similar, these albums aren’t going for the same thing. “Miseducation” is a hip-hop / rap album first & foremost, with Lauryn’s singing abilities constantly used to enhance the hip-hop base each track is built on to elevate it to a higher level. This album leans far more into the 70s Stevie Wonder-esque style of R&B and soul music, with Erykah’s rapping abilities occasionally used to enhance the R&B base of each track. This is a *soul* album first & foremost, and that’s a big enough distinction that it places each album distinctly separately from each other, no matter how intertwined they might feel. So, with all that preamble, how effective is Erykah Badu as a soul singer? Words can’t describe it; you simply have to hear her voice. Yes, sometimes she leans into a sort of Lenny Kravitz-y nasally tone, but it never once brings a track down. When she’s at her finest on this album, she’s evoking the past brilliantly, especially so on “Orange Moon”, which might be one of the most beautiful tracks I’ve ever heard in my life. Her voice blends so well into the instrumentals on this album, working hand-in-hand in a way where it all melts together into a harmony that’s hard to describe but impossible not to feel in the moment. Instrumentally, I adore the production here all the same; this does lean heavily into a “modernized” version of Stevie Wonder’s ‘70s work, combined with some of the overproduction flair that had come to pass in the “quiet storm” era of R&B throughout the 90s. That flair is simplified though, taking the best of its emotional pull while giving it a jazzier & funkier tone to create the grooves that make this album glide. There’s no better example of this than the 5 tracks that start the album; “Penitentiary Philosophy” is an incredible opener, down to the melodic interpolation of “Ordinary Pain”, the swirling instrumental & the much-needed cooldown of the final minute. “Didn’t Cha Know” has a beat that’s smooth as silk, and J. Dilla’s production work does wonders. The back-to-back-to-back punch of “My Life”, “...& On”, and “Cleva”, all flowing into each other, with one long lingering theme of living your life with a self-confidence that’s too undeniable for people to bring you down, is a highlight of the album for me. Those first 5 tracks set the tone, and they act as such a strong start to the whole album that I fully bought in the rest of the way. This album’s tracks get longer and longer, so mileage will certainly vary about how willing you are to buy into what this album is selling. Since I’m already accustomed to the sort of Stevie Wonder-esque “bloat” this album has, it was never that big of a deal for me. It is crazy to acknowledge that the final 3 tracks here are longer than the first 5 though; it’s something I felt vaguely aware of while listening, but since I was already DEEP into the groove, it’s not something that affected my experience with the album. However, those final 3 tracks are where my one flaw with this album lies. It’s the track order; very specifically, I think “Green Eyes” & “Time’s a Wastin’” should’ve been flipped. Within the normal context of the album, “Time’s a Wastin’” feels unnecessary; I think the lyricism is just a little broad to really send a message like she wants to, singing in broader platitudes as opposed to a more focused message like Stevie or others would’ve given. Because the lyrics are so broad, I don’t think they justify the 6 minute runtime; it’s a smooth instrumental, and her vocals glide when they do, but for what it’s actually saying, it’s not saying that much. Overall, I think it’s a bit of a momentum stopper right before the big finish. However, if it had come directly after “Green Eyes”, which is all about a sort of “relapsing” journey based around truly getting over an ex (maybe Andre 3000?), I think its broader messaging would be fine given the specificity of “Green Eyes” as an example of how to stop drifting along in life, and it would feel far more digestible. There’s lot more I didn’t touch on, like the fun dichotomy of “Booty” & “Kiss Me on My Neck” in terms of subject matter, the backstory behind “A.D. 2000” and my own personal frustration that we’ve moved nowhere in terms of police brutality & racial profiling, the deeper beauty of “Orange Moon” and how I think it’s a ballad to her son (genuinely an all-timer), the slightly long (but fun!) minimalist reggae vibes of “In Love with You”, or the absolute groove of “Bag Lady”, but those are all things that need to be heard once you’re in a full flow state with this album. If you can’t hit that flow state, you won’t be able to digest this as fully as I did, but I think it’s very achievable. Lyrically, these are about as simple as you can get, hitting you over the head with their meaning. Even if you can’t get into the lyrics, the grooves & her voice are so damn smooth that you can feel each track without a second thought. As a whole, even with my one flaw, I think this stands up as a pinnacle of the neo-soul genre, and I’m once again blown away both by my own stupidity at ignoring someone, and at just how damn good they ended up being for my tastes. It’s a 10. A great, great album. I gotta listen to Megadeth after this? Talk about a tone shift, jeez.

This album flows so so SO well. Erykah Badu’s voice seems to be polarizing, but I find it suits her neo-soul style and overall vibe very very well. The final track probably could have been cut a bit, but otherwise, a totally gorgeous album. 5/5

❤️!

I may have fallen asleep during this album, but my dreams were nice

couldnt stand the growing pains🍏

Made me convert to baduism

Lovely, calming, easy listening.. beautiful songs, beautiful lyrics, soul healing..

another album i heard way too late after it was released. this was such a good listen to, i'll definitely have to make more time to listen to it again.

Really jazzy neo-soul It's pretty easy listening, like I'd hear it in a lounge or coffee shop. Honestly I think what's keeping mre from LOVING it is her voice, it's really raspy and kinda wish it just hit me with more oomph. Flies by though. Can't believe it's 71 minutes

This was definitely different than most of the albums on this list. Not bad, but not something I would want to listen to often.

The first half of this record is so fuckin good. It really lags around the second half but still great overall.

Liked it plenty. Good groove for whole album. No standouts no duds.

I would expect to overpay for my drinks and have an unexceptionally sad time in this bar. Stylish wallpaper, I grant. Simon, I’m willing to stake money one of our absent project comrades is an owner-liker of this album. Will report back.

Never seems to go anywhere, spinning it's souly, jazzy wheels aimlessly. "Baduizm" is a tighter, if equally ephemeral, tidbit.

Always quite liked Erykah Badu’s singles but I get bored listening to a full album. There’s good melodies here but it doesn’t really add up to more than just chill background music. The weird vocal delivery in some songs got on my nerves after a while.

Way too slick to be genuinely soulful, and melodically malnourished. All it has going for it is the occasional funky groove, because the voice just isn't that interesting or original, especially over the bloated runtime. Really dull stuff, I expected more fron this.

eh, not the worst album on this list by a long shot, but pretty dull and uninspiring to me. the songs all smush together and don't really go anywhere. whenever i thought the music sounded ok, the vocals were there to bore me to death, and vice versa. lyrics were meh and had some secret "god is good" messaging which was an unpleasant discovery. the best compliment i can give it is it reminded me of Rouge's level music in Sonic Adventure 2. also, surprised to see that no one's referenced any of the legal issues or controversies surrounding erykah "hitler was good actually" badu. she's not like, kid rock or marilyn manson level, but still, yikes favorites: didn't cha know (i guess)

You remove the vocals, it sounds like soundtrack for some VHS porn tape

Black intelligent people music and I am white

Never even heard of it before. Left me cold. In fact I hated it. 1 Star

Oh wow. This is good. Like, really good actually. This is genuinely amazing. I really love this album. I mean, it's not the biggest surprise in the world. I already gave Lauryn Hill a 5 (arguably 2 if you count the Fugees album), so is it really that surprising that I gave Erykah Badu a 5 as well? Maybe! Let's talk about Mama's Gun. There's a lot that I could talk about with this album. It is 70 minutes long after. Despite that, the album's pacing doesn't have any noticeable slowdown. It managed to keep my attention the whole way through, which is impressive for an album of this length. How does this happen? It's simple. The music is really really good. These songs are so good. "Penitentiary Philosophy" is such an awesome opener. Part of me kinda wishes there were more songs like it on the album, but the other songs are still incredible so I can't complain that much. "Don't Cha Know" is great. It's probably the album's most iconic song and for good reason. The album even makes room for longer songs like "Orange Moon" and "Green Eyes" which are both wonderful. "Bag Lady" is pretty nice. It's one of the songs where Erykah Badu's songwriting gets to shine. Speaking of which, the songwriting is quite good. There's a solid balance between the sorta love songs that helps define contemporary r&b and the social consciousness that helps define neo-soul specifically. I really appreciate that about this style of music. Speaking of music, the musical elements of the album are quite enjoyable as well. The influences from soul, funk, hip-hop, and more help to create an engaging album that captures the time and culture it was made in very well. I also like Badu's singing quite a bit. Maybe not as much as other neo-soul singers like Lauryn Hill or D'Angelo, but she puts more than enough soul into the songs to get the emotional beats across properly. I've got to say. I'm impressed. I figured I'd like this, but the extent to which I do enjoy it is quite a bit higher than one might have expected. Mama's Gun is excellent. 5/5.

Classic album .Top of the heap

Erykah Badu, more like Erykah Badass.

She is an absolute genius

This is the two hundred sixteenth album I’m rating. I only know her because of André 3000. Adding to my Playlist - Penitentiary Philosophy, Didn't Cha Know, My Life, ... & On, Cleva, Hey Sugah (Interlude), Booty, Kiss Me On My Neck, A.D. 2000, Orange Moon, In Love With You, Time's a Wastin', and Green Eyes. Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. All in all I liked 14/14 songs. Even better than André 3000.

LOVE!!!!

One of my favorite albums of all time

Super

This is surprisiny amazing

musikalisch sehr vilsiitig, aber immer packend. au emotional cha si ganz underschidlichi stimmige überebringe. ganz toll!

Love this album. No notes

Loved this! The attitude, the smooth approach, the catchy hooks. She’s such a queen and keeps my attention the whole time.

Green eyes pushed this one to a 5 for me.

i thought baduizm was my favorite erykah badu album but maybe its this? mama's gun builds on the themes introduced in baduizm so expertly. i so appreciate the blending off different black instrumentation and musical traditions -- jazz, hip hop, african instruments, blues music. i love how playful the first half of the album is but the second half is DEEP, so much wisdom in the lyrics. And Green Eyes is just a masterpiece. Its one of my favorite Badu songs but its somehow even better in the context of the full album, like all these loved and lost or never loved at all situations are all leading up to the instance when Badu herself has been rejected, and the struggle to move on from that. Truly wonderful.

Не сказать что в этом альбоме есть какойто особый вокал эрики(он хдесь почти монотонный) но это просто классный альбом со своими хорошими моментами поэтому 4.5.

I mean I knew about this album but I never realized how good it was. Exceeded expectations

Just an album you can't help but vibe to. 4.5 bumped up to 5.

amazing album.

INSTANT favorite. Thoroughly impressed front to back. Unbelievably raw harmonies, buttery smooth production, diverse styles coalescing into a honest to god masterpiece. WOW I can’t get enough of this. I’m shocked at the mediocre rating this got. Did y’all listen to the same album as I just did?

Good stuff. Especially the second part. It's really, really great! Best one so far.

album increible, la continuidad de cada cancion y como se conecta con las otras. una artista que desconocia pero que pienso indagar muchisimo mas, porque todo el sonido me fascino. letras increibles. 10/10

If you thought Baduizm was smooth this project takes it to a whole new level that simply hasn’t been seen yet in her discography. Every second of this project is striking in every single way, by the end of Green Eyes my jaw was on the floor by just how beautiful this all was. There are so many highlights but honestly you should just listen to this album over and over again, each time will give such a treat of ear candy to your headphones and you. This album is a classic for a reason but god damn I didn’t expect it to be this mind blowing my first go around. I come back to this album and listen in full at least once a month for just about 2 years now. This album is damn near perfect with each relisten I am always picking apart a new track as a personal favorite. What originally started as Didn't Cha Know, then became Bag Lady, which became A.D. 2000, which is now In Love With You (Feat. Stephen Marley). The production here is so timeless and full of this undying youth that makes you wish to feel all of the emotions present here for years to come. It is an album no matter what stage of your life you are in it will always be relatable. Mama's Gun is nothing short of a masterpiece and a milestone in all of music. It is an essential that should be heard by all no matter what. All I have to say is thank you for Erykah Badu, she is such a gift to music as a whole.

Mother. Amo cómo se funden las canciones una con la otra. Siento que soy una planta creciendo y floreciendo. Such good vibes <3

Now we’re talking. These songs purr, crackle, groove. Each one is worth listening to in its own right. What a talent Badu is.

So good! Once through with distractions, the second time with AirPods. Definitely worth a close listen. Or two. Or ten.

The album was fantastic lyrics music singing all fantastic

Spectacularly smooth evocative and jazzy. An incredible evolution of mid century classic

Solid gold. Orange Moon is one of the beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.

fantastic instrumentals, incredible follow up to her debut

Solid voice, lyrics, and music.

love

Erykah Badu knows how to do Soul/R&B right... It's definitely headphones and relaxing music.

absolute perfection

Extremely strong – mellowly funky and vibesy, bittersweet and melancholic and so many interesting and well-constructed cuts ("&on" "Cleva"). "AD 2000" and “Orange Moon” are straight-up sweet and deeply soulful. The latter’s flutes are a lovely add, perfectly complemented with decisive-yet-soft-touch percussion and balanced, thoughtful piano and representative of the skilled/tasteful/subtle playing throughout the record Editors are right, “Green Eyes” is “sublime,” as is the album as a whole.

Masterpiece

I dug into her stuff about a year ago and had loved what I heard but havent listened to this album in full till now. She is incredibleeeee I love this album!

Segundo disco de la texana, continuación del soberbio Baduizm. Tampoco es que se prodigue mucho, dos discos más un directo cotando este álbum y luego otros tres en Motown, el primero otro éxito mayor aún que este Mama´s gun. No publica desde hace más de 15 años.. aunque sigue en el cine. Este es fabuloso también: neo soul, jazz y rap pero sobre todo elegancia. Es un disco para escuchar de noche. ¿Puede decirse que está al nivel de D'Angelo? No lo sé, tal vez no , ni a la de Maxwell o Frank Ocean. Pero es una de las grandes, eso sin duda. Al nivel de Common y otros. Desde luego sin ella (ni la imprescindible Lauryn Hill) no habría Macy Gray, Angie Stone, Musiq Soulchild ni India Arie. Tampoco Alicia Keys ni las británicas Joss Stone, Corinne Bailey Rae, Amy Winehouse, Estelle, Duffy o Adele. Por supuesto Solange y la verdadera Beyoncé tampoco. Con ella se dio el paso de W.Houston-M.Carey a otras cotas de soul. Para este sedoso disco contó con Questlove a las baquetas y el pianista James Poyser, que habína trabajado con D´Angelo. A un año de su maternidad y separación de Andre 3000 (que publicó el fundamental Skantonia con Outkast) ella se volcó en este Mama´s gun. El largo, en duración, tema inicial Penitentiary Philosophy da paso al sencillo Did´nt cha know, elegante como pocos y producido por el gran J Dilla en donde samplea magistralment «Dreamflower» de Tarika. Blue My life que suena a TLC actualizadas. A.D 2000, dedicada a Amadou Diallo, aquel inmigrante asesinado por error por la policia neoyorquina a finales de siglo. …& On remite a su éxito On & On, actualizándolo. Bag Lady otro de sus éxitos es gospel pero revestido de seda. Green Eyes es un jazz improvisado con la trompeta del difunto Roy Hargrove . No tuvo el éxtio de su debut, pero se ganó la eternidad.

How have I never listened to her before? This is so fantastic.

feels like one endlessly morphing and perfectly continuous god-tier drum groove until orange moon, at which point theres so much open space it almost freaks me out, but because it holds to this evolution (even as it gradually re-introduces the drums) it just makes the whole thing so melty and intoxicating by the end. just a great, great flex of production and performance, feels like the language of soul being pushed into something rly distinct and even years later still just clearly vibrantly creative. a rly good beneficiary of the bloated cd-era tracklist too...it rly just seems to grow in power the more time u inhabit it!

Such a nice discovery I’ll listen more of her for sure !

Damn

Increíble, RnB en estado puro, voz única.

Soft R&B. This album put me to sleep, but in a good way. It was a very chill vibe throughout that I really liked.

This one brings back memories. Can’t believe it’s 25 years old 😱😱! Erykah just puts you in a mood with her jazzy yet funky inflections. An album for the dance floor and at times bedroom.

just solid all around, love that distinct voice. i actually heard this album for the first time over two years ago, but in all that time since i didn't realize that track 8 ('kiss me on my neck') didn't download with the rest of the album, so that was a nice surprise. orange moon is an all-time r&b song!

Amazing. So good. An analog girl in a digital world.

Loved it. Really cool, chill vibes, a ton of instruments.

Gruv

A really excellent r&b album. I tend not to listen to these kind of records in full and usually on a playlist and I’ve heard random tracks throughout my life such as orange moon , booty, didn’t cha know and a.d. 2000. But the record as a whole is so complete. Easy on the ears for beautiful vibes but lots of variety of instrumentation and genres of jazz, soul, funk and some pop sensibility. Sensual, groovy/funky and just excellently written and performed. My life, green eyes, in love with you and times a’wasting are also all great

bare rate it

It took me way too long in life to realize how amazing Erykah Badu is.

Another reason why I'm doing this list. Absolutely loved this and had never heard it before

Not to put too much of an emphasis on comparing them, but after getting ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ a few days ago, I said that I thought it was great, but couldn’t entirely see why it was THAT good. This is very much not the case for ‘Mama’s Gun’, an album that seemingly has ‘SPECIAL’ radiating out of every moment of it. The first thing big strength of the record is the fact it contains one of the best album openers ever in the form of the imperious psychedelic funk assault that is ‘Penitentiary Philosophy’, a song of such humungous scale that it leaves Erykah Badu audibly and spiritually towering above us mere mortals by the end. The majority of the album is performed from a similar height, with one immaculately produced and perfectly controlled dose of sensual neo soul after another, never outstaying their welcome or being anything less than perfect. Badu performs these songs as if floating somewhere above the listeners head in a large translucent bubble, sounding both intimate and just out of reach. Admittedly, the quieter and more acoustic guitar led second half, in which Badu gradually descends back down to earth, probably does drag a bit. This section does still bring with it its own moments of astonishment, and what came before was so good that any moments of vague tedium hardly even matter. There’s just something really pure about this entire album; a perfectly realised outpouring of relentless creativity that seemingly flowed out of Badu on a barely conscious level. No skits either (take note Lauryn Hill, take note!)

I had never listened to this full album before, this was absolutely fantastic. I wasn't expecting the Betty Davis style Funk opener, "Penitentiary Philosophy" hit so hard! And then into the absolutely classic "Didn't Cha Know". And then it just stays perfect all the way through the epic closer, "Green Eyes". This was a great reminder that I need to listen to more Erykah Badu.

Soup for the soul

Wow, incredible music. Some of the best R&B I've heard with some outstanding backing music. I enjoyed TLC and Destiny's Child for what they are, but this was a whole new level. My favorites were A.D. 2000 and Green Eyes. These songs are oozing with style and tell great stories, so much more than typical love shlop that appears on similar tracks.

Mama’s Gun Incredible album. Favorite songs are Green Eyes, Didn’t cha know, and penitentiary philosophy. 5

Love this album, this has been one of my favs since high school. So original and so vibey. Love her voice and the writing and arrangements are so cool. Such a good listen all the way through