"Soul Parade" by Cherokee - "Released" in 2002

For the life of me I can't find it any damn where. If anyone knows of this please post on it.

Sorry


No luck

funkpill said:

Damn, when FP can't find it then it probably doesn't exist.

LuxuryBrown said:

I'll keep a watch on it for ya'

Where have you looked for it?

nurse said:

Amazon

and a few record store sites

but no luck.

LuxuryBrown said:

go to SUCKY ALBUMS.COM they may have it

funkpill said:

Well it's not on iTunes either-LuxuryBrown is she still recording?

nurse said:

Everywhere - Amazon, ebay, cdbaby, rasputin, the giant peach. no one has it.

funkpill said:

Thankx bro!

ccollin88 said:

I went but they only had your album - in the 99cent bin

nurse said:

The album was shelved by Arista in 2002, right before it was scheduled to be released.

The only video that I can remember was for the single "I Swear", which I wanted, and there was single pressed for the song "Nectarine" with Outkast.

Singer-songwriter Cherokee officially claims 27 , but One World magazine pegs the artist ( who recently escaped from RCA to Arista ) at "30 or so" a guess that shows more respect for dues paid than for corporate hedging and false gods of immaturity . Not that Arista ( which was once famous for putting legendary queens of soul on the comeback trail and keeping them there regardless of age ) should quail at supporting talent born before 1975 . The label's ongoing success with rap and new-jack pioneer Angie Stone proves that with the right song and marketing , age ain't nothin' but a number . And trust me , Cherokee's second solo album , Soul Parade , has all the funk and charm and wit and savvy guest stars it needs to succeed at black radio and beyond. Cherokee's runway-model looks don't hurt , either , but if she keeps composing stuff this good she'll have plenty to fall back on when her sylph-like glamour fades .

Having survived a brief former career in the early '90s as half of the teenage alt-rock duo Auto & Cherokee , this half-black , half-Native New Yorker steps to her current collaborators with the natural inclinations of a Prince devotee steeped in the hip-hop flavors of her Brooklyn adolescence . By using Grammy-winning funk revivalist Andre 3000 of Outkast to hammer home its killer hook , her rock-inflected Nectarine leaves the door open for future divergence from cookie-cutter r&b trends. Equally offbeat is the seductive slow grind of Baby I Swear , a single designed to implant Cherokee's "sound" ( a distinctively grainy mewl that Prince would have turned into a falsetto ) in the frontal lobe of every first-time listener . Though if trench warfare with the commercial competition requires it , she can also play the shrewd vocal chameleon .

Cherokee is unafraid to risk comparisons to Macy or Erykah , whose gritty textures she playfully incorporates into her smoky soprano on tunes like A Woman Knows ( which she co-wrote with Def Soul wunderkind Musiq Soulchild ) and Lips . But she has largely turned away from the darker , more inaccessibly idiosyncratic content which made 1999's I Love You . . . Me . She knows that until she finds and secures an audience loyal enough to let her develop a discography 14 albums deep, she is safer running with the fraternal pack of her alt-soul contemporaries than asserting full musical independence . And whether that means composing an atmospheric ballad with Jill Scott or pulling Scratch from the Roots into the studio , Cherokee is down with the posse that gives her quirky individuality a context as well as an easy reference point for the MTV masses .

http://www.villagevoice.c...46,22.html



SOUL PARADE

- Release Date: 3/19/2002
- Catalogue Number: 078221472722


1 - Runaway
2 - Lips
3 - A Woman Knows
4 - I Swear
5 - Nectarine
6 - Star
7 - Nothing
8 - Crazy
9 - Daddy How ?
10 - Where
11 - One
12 - Can't Let It Go
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[Edited 7/23/06 10:03am]

it was never released, i looked long & hard for it too, only found a few songs on limewire... it's a shame, i loved her!

The 'Nectarine' maxi-single is available on vinyl here: http://www.gemm.com/ddc/s...&page_on=6

Thanks for that info, C-Note. Yeah, it is a shame this was never released. I bet it's off the hook too! PETITION TIME!
[Edited 7/23/06 10:31am]

Her 1st release was very damn good. I can't beleive it's going for $0.38 on Amazon. I'm buying it again just to have a backup. That album is worth it for one song alone - "Fictitiously"

LuxuryBrown said:

Thanx 2 for mentioning that album man . I wasn't aware of that
And she looks honeyfine on that Soul Parade cover .

Justin1972UK said:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...kee%20soul

100MPH said:

Yeah, between her and Adriana Evans, I don't know who's finer.

In fact, I'm listening to her single with Bilal - A Woman Knows - On AOL Radio. This shit is off the hook! RELEASE THE FUCKING ALBUM ALREADY, YOU CAPITALIST SONS OF BITCHES!

http://music.aol.com/arti...ade/579702

LuxuryBrown said:

WORD !
Dang , brings me back to her performance i've seen in the summer of '97 or '98 .
Oh boy , she was dressed in this class sexay dress with her hair in a big ponytail . It was like African Queen & Soul-Diva combined . She looked magical !





That showq back then was tight , and included guitarist Craig T. Cooper .


[Edited 7/24/06 0:11am]

100MPH said:

Yah, she was so damn yummy. In her 7 Days video she's STILL fine!

funkin4kix said:

Never released at all the vinyl DJ promo copies never went out!!! That has to be wrong!?!?