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For Lovers, Dreamers & Me

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Alice Smith

 
For Lovers, Dreamers & Me
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  • Date Released: March 20, 2007
  • Genre: Rock/Pop
  • Style: Pop
  • Label: Epic
  • Copyright: (P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

The defining work of an R&B hippie

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    Phoebe Snow. Syreeta Wright. Minnie Riperton. The reference points are direct and unforced. Alice Smith is a bohemian with soul. An R&B hippie. The sort that gets nominated in the Best Alternative/Urban category at the Grammys. But the nomenclature isn't important: For Lovers Dreamers And Me is her first and only album, but it is a fierce statement, loaded with the sort of songs that sound like they've been sitting in a notebook for a decade waiting to be belted. "Fake Is The New Real" is cynical and snarling, a savvy commentary righteously delivered. "Desert Song" is a vamp that knows from Billie Holliday. And the knockout opener "Dream" feels like it's a cover of a classic. For Lovers is far from perfect — at times it wants to be too much to no one in particular — but it insists upon itself in a way that so much R&B cannot. That alone is worth it.

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