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- Date Released: February 4, 2003
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Contemporary
- Label: Dreambox Media
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The double-album-length (21 songs in 71 minutes) Things Are Things is Jef Lee Johnson's most eclectic set yet. In the first three songs alone, the Philadelphia-based Johnson moves from a clattering free jazz-style instrumental ("New Ways To Say Nothing"); to Robert Cray-like R&B ("It Ain't Hard For You"); to a woozy, neo-psychedelic slab of funk-rock ("Funk Is Not Enough") that Prince would be happy to claim as his own. Johnson can seemingly do anything, but unlike a lot of similarly eclectic artists, he doesn't come off as an unfocused genre- dabbler. For some reason, the muscular 11-minute dance-funk instrumental "Law and Order " -- which sounds like Sonny Sharrock sitting in with the early Golden Palominos -- just sounds right sitting next to a faithful acoustic cover of Donovan's hippy-dippy "Mellow Yellow," which itself fits nicely next to the wiggly, Hendrix-like "Absolutely Maybe." An artist who has grown artistically from album to album, Jef Lee Johnson has by this point reached a state where he could logically progress just about anywhere.
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| 01. |  |
New Ways To Say Nothing |
3:16 |
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| 02. | |
It Ain't Hard For You |
2:51 |
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| 03. | |
Funk Is Not Enough |
3:02 |
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| 04. | |
Changed |
5:23 |
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| 05. | |
This Is This |
2:01 |
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| 06. | |
Soul Surfer |
4:07 |
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| 07. | |
Toxic Kids |
3:04 |
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| 08. | |
I'm So Thru With You |
4:59 |
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| 09. | |
Today |
3:55 |
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| 10. | |
Won't Be Here For Long |
4:01 |
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| 11. | |
Takes One To Know One |
3:11 |
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| 12. | |
Sci-fi Girl |
2:17 |
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| 13. | |
Reality |
1:10 |
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| 14. | |
Reckless Eyeballin' |
2:40 |
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| 15. | |
A Song Shook the World |
3:53 |
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| 16. | |
Just Not That Way |
2:12 |
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| 17. | |
Law And Order |
11:08 |
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| 18. | |
Mellow Yellow |
4:29 |
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| 19. | |
Absolutely Maybe |
2:05 |
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| 20. | |
Emmett Till |
1:26 |
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20 Total Tracks, 71:10 Total Length
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