Amid a sea of rump-shaking R&B starlets, Lalah Hathaway shines with herbrand of grown-woman soul.Sister Soul
By Mark Anthony Neal | TheRoot.com
June 9, 2008--For much of her musical career and indeed her life, Lalah Hathaway's legendary last name likely mattered most to the people who encountered her. There was a novelty to Hathaway's debut recording in 1990-the daughter of a legendary soul singer makes good-though 18 years and four recordings later-Hathaway is a fully-grown woman who can stand on her
own musically. Self Portrait, marks Hathaway first recording since Outrun the Sky (2004) and also her first recording from the newly-revamped Stax recording label.
Given Stax's singular position as a great-if not the greatest-soul label, it is only fitting that the daughter of the late Donny Hathaway, whose music trafficked in a range of musical genres including gospel and blues, would find a recording home there. "It's really cool," Hathaway says of her relationship with the new Stax, "I'm excited just being mentioned in the same breath of such an iconic legendary label that is just synonymous with\ the concept of soul music all over the world."
On the new record, Hathaway pairs with producer Rex Rideout on most of the tracks. Rideout also produced Hathaway's earlier version of Luther Vandross' "Forever, For Always, For Love" which appeared on Outrun the Sky and the Forever, For Always, For Luther smooth jazz tribute to the late Vandross. Hathaway is quite happy with the work she did with Rideout noting that, "Right now for me, he's the cat." According to the singer, Rideout was able to "get things out of me that I did not know were there yet. And it's not by forcing or prodding-there was an ease working with him that I hadn't felt with a producer before."
Additionally as the recording's title suggest, Self Portrait, is the first recording that Hathaway has done in which she could control every aspect of the process. In that sense, the recording offers more of a glimpse into the woman, who as a little girl had access to one of the true geniuses of black music. "Absolutely," she responds when asked about the personal touch of Self Portrait, "more than any other record, just because of my involvement and that is at every level like choosing the producers and the musicians and the rooms that we mix in and the arrangements and writing and producing.and that's not to claim it and have it, but it's really a way to get it like I want it."
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By Mark Anthony Neal | TheRoot.com
June 9, 2008--For much of her musical career and indeed her life, Lalah Hathaway's legendary last name likely mattered most to the people who encountered her. There was a novelty to Hathaway's debut recording in 1990-the daughter of a legendary soul singer makes good-though 18 years and four recordings later-Hathaway is a fully-grown woman who can stand on her
own musically. Self Portrait, marks Hathaway first recording since Outrun the Sky (2004) and also her first recording from the newly-revamped Stax recording label.
Given Stax's singular position as a great-if not the greatest-soul label, it is only fitting that the daughter of the late Donny Hathaway, whose music trafficked in a range of musical genres including gospel and blues, would find a recording home there. "It's really cool," Hathaway says of her relationship with the new Stax, "I'm excited just being mentioned in the same breath of such an iconic legendary label that is just synonymous with\ the concept of soul music all over the world."
On the new record, Hathaway pairs with producer Rex Rideout on most of the tracks. Rideout also produced Hathaway's earlier version of Luther Vandross' "Forever, For Always, For Love" which appeared on Outrun the Sky and the Forever, For Always, For Luther smooth jazz tribute to the late Vandross. Hathaway is quite happy with the work she did with Rideout noting that, "Right now for me, he's the cat." According to the singer, Rideout was able to "get things out of me that I did not know were there yet. And it's not by forcing or prodding-there was an ease working with him that I hadn't felt with a producer before."
Additionally as the recording's title suggest, Self Portrait, is the first recording that Hathaway has done in which she could control every aspect of the process. In that sense, the recording offers more of a glimpse into the woman, who as a little girl had access to one of the true geniuses of black music. "Absolutely," she responds when asked about the personal touch of Self Portrait, "more than any other record, just because of my involvement and that is at every level like choosing the producers and the musicians and the rooms that we mix in and the arrangements and writing and producing.and that's not to claim it and have it, but it's really a way to get it like I want it."
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