Am I missing something or did he fall off the planet?

Japan........I think.

Is this a serious question? He relased an album late December of 2014. After a 14 year hiatus. HE last performed a Prince song on Jimmy Fallon about a week or so after he passed. He was supposed to headline the BET Awards in June, but that was scraped.

D'Angelo headlined the first ever Roots Picnic 3 weeks ago at Bryant Park in NYC. John Mayer backed him as the second lead guitarist. There is some fan-shot footage on YouTube.

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EmmaMcG said:

RAPSTA said:

EmmaMcG said:

Hopefully he's off recording another album that we won't have to wait another decade to hear.

In an interview with Rolling Stone last year, D'Angelo revealed that he has been working on a follow-up for Black Messiah. He explained that it will be like a "companion piece". [Edited 10/20/16 18:51pm]

And HOPEFULLY not another 15 Years!!!!!

woogiebear said:

RAPSTA said:

EmmaMcG said: In an interview with Rolling Stone last year, D'Angelo revealed that he has been working on a follow-up for Black Messiah. He explained that it will be like a "companion piece". [Edited 10/20/16 18:51pm]

And HOPEFULLY not another 15 Years!!!!!

Well, I'm not worried about that. He's doing better now ... There are reasons why it took him about 14 years to release another project.

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

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D'Angelo headlined the first ever Roots Picnic 3 weeks ago at Bryant Park in NYC. John Mayer backed him as the second lead guitarist. There is some fan-shot footage on YouTube.

Yes and check out the Okayplayer website too. I follow them on Instagram and they posted an excellent vid/snippet of D'Angelo's rehearsal for the Roots Picnic. Ahh man, it was off the chain. They posted pics too and it seems that D still appears to look healthy...has put on some more weight though.

Might be back to batshit land.

Nothing odd about the question. The album was released almost two years ago, was critically acclaimed, but it doesn't seem to be the case that he properly utilized the chance to restart his career with it.

Does anyone have the setlist for the Roots Picnic appearance? I'm interested to know if he's changed it up at all since I saw him last year.

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

Does anyone have the setlist for the Roots Picnic appearance? I'm interested to know if he's changed it up at all since I saw him last year.

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I am glad D is doing well! Look forward to the new music!

novabrkr said:

Nothing odd about the question. The album was released almost two years ago, was critically acclaimed, but it doesn't seem to be the case that he properly utilized the chance to restart his career with it.

I know right...can't believe that it's been two years already!!! D has struck me as a person who doesn't seem to handle fame well. I don't think he wants the attention he gets from being such a critically acclaimed artist. Seems to me that he just a regular person that wants to do his music and/or tour when he wants and not on anybody else's time.

missfee said:

Rachel Rodriguez covered his last album pretty good too. She also has a new album of new material. Check it:

https://soundcloud.com/rqlrod

mjscarousal said:

I am glad D is doing well! Look forward to the new music!

thekidsgirl said:

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Ah cheers. Looks like he's gone back to mostly playing Voodoo material bit that's probably understandable in this instance given that it was a shorter set and people would understandably want to hear the classic songs. Nice to see that he covered Pop Life, wonder what that sounded like

Because it was a shorter set, and you'd figure they'd play the "classic songs", I'm surprised to not see any of the actual singles from the Voodoo album.

thekidsgirl said:

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

thekidsgirl said:
Ah cheers. Looks like he's gone back to mostly playing Voodoo material bit that's probably understandable in this instance given that it was a shorter set and people would understandably want to hear the classic songs. Nice to see that he covered Pop Life, wonder what that sounded like

Because it was a shorter set, and you'd figure they'd play the "classic songs", I'm surprised to not see any of the actual singles from the Voodoo album.

Very true, that's a good observation, I guess I tend to think of Voodoo as a kind of contiguous whole and don't really tend to think of the singles as standing out or apart from the album (with the obvious exception of Untitled which is definitely a notable absence from the setlist.) But yeah you're right, it's hardly a super commercial setlist designed to appeal to the masses (that sounds super condescending but you know what I mean) that I perhaps insinuated it was.