Listen here:

http://www.soultracks.com...eena-marie

http://www.amazon.com/Con...B001XJBDHQ




[Edited 6/18/09 5:05am]

first single "Can't Last A Day" featuring Faith Evans

From listening to these clips,it appears that this CD is mostly a Quiet Storm affair.I don't hear alot of uptempo funk here.

This still sounds like a more satisfying CD than the one on Cash Money Records (home of Lil' Wayne).

I checked it out last week and i'm diggin it.

I'm definitely gonna pick up a copy on Tuesday.

SoulAlive said:

You got all her schitt, eh?

Cinnie said:

Everything except for her 1994 CD 'Passion Play'.Gotta get that one next.

I love the first single. Very smooth and breezy.

I'm interested to hear it, but that last CD she had out a few years back was really awful.

phunkdaddy said:

I keep hoping that this song will grow on me but so far,it hasn't.

NouveauDance said:

You must be referrring to 'Sapphire',released in 2006.I don't like every song on it,but I found several cool songs that I liked.

I will be copping this disc on the 9th!!!!!
Support TRUE SCHOOL Funk-N-Soul Music!!!!!

woogiebear said:

Is anything funky on it? I told her on twitter I want funk

paisleypark4 said:

If you're looking for the hard,gritty funk she did in the 80s,you won't find it here.This album is mostly laid-back.Alot of midtempo grooves.

SoulAlive said:

DIDNT I TELL her.....

interesting title, i'm intrigued.

She's performing in my area in August,on a bill with Keith Sweat.I may go to this show.

SoulAlive said:

That's something I'd go to

NouveauDance said:

Yeah, that was pretty bad. I didn't even buy it. To me, Teena is so hit and miss when it comes to albums.

SoulAlive said:

Teena is very good live to me. She always sounds great. Keith, not so much. I've seen him twice and didn't like either of the shows. He was just ok.

From the clips I've listened to on Soultracks.com, I'm loving what I'm hearing! By far, the best CD I've heard this year! I will be in the store on Tuesday snapping this one up! This may prove to be a fairly decent summer for grown-up music. I just listened to some samples for Will Downing's upcoming CD and it sounds great!

daPrettyman said:

I wish it was Teena Marie on a bill with somebody else....maybe Jeffrey Osborne.I would definitely go! I've never been a huge fan of Keith Sweat,although I really like his first album.

SoulAlive said:

Now, the 2 times I did see Keith, he did play almost every hit from his first album. I think he knows the importance of doing all of those songs. How can you have a Keith Sweat show without "Right and a Wrong Way"?

SoulAlive said:

I don't get it. Why when certain artists associated with the funk genre of the '70s and '80s suddenly go ADULT CONTEMPORARY on later releases? Why? I mean...

Timmy84 said:

Yeah,it's strange isn't it? These are the very people who should really be funking it up and showing the youngsters how it's done! To be fair,I think the record labels put pressure on them to go this route.

daPrettyman said:

You didn't like 'Sapphire' at all? What about the two songs with Smokey Robinson? I thought those were nice

My only problem with that CD (as well as 'La Dona') are the cheesy hip-hop sounding tracks that Teena insists on doing.I always have to skip past those songs.Fortunately,the good moments on those albums outweigh the bad,imo.

SoulAlive said:

I thought the new Smokey trax were ok, but I just didn't like it.

I think she insisted on doing the hip-hop stuff because she was on Cash Money and they probably thought the trax were "hot". I think this new project is different.

can't wait till tomorrow (that is an old Sheena Easton song). I love me some Teena Marie!!!!! I will be downloading it from emusic or amazon.com.

SoulAlive said:

I absolutely don't get why today's producers are trying to make yesterday's artists sound modern. It doesn't work at all. Also, what's up with trying to make her (and Mariah's, for that matter) voice sound like a sample loop?