Gregory Porter – Redemption Songs
Friday, August 9, 2013
Acknowledged as a once-in-a-generation talent, powerhouse soul-jazz singer Gregory Porter’s recent success has been a long time coming, and yet his artistic maturity has helped him produce three superlative albums in as many years.
Significantly it’s his latest, Liquid Spirit, which appears on the legendary Blue Note label – an imprint not without its own soul-jazz drenched heritage – and as Porter tells Kevin Le Gendre, it finds him drawing deep from the well of his preacher mother’s teachings, gospel songs and his spiritual upbringing
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