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Žanr: Fank i Soul, R&B
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Studio album by Raphael Saadiq
Released August 23, 2019
Studio Blakeslee Recording Co. (North Hollywood)
Genre
R&Bsoulneo soul
Length 39:27
Label Columbia
Producer
Raphael SaadiqBrook D`LeauSir DylanCharles BrungardtCharlie BerealKevin Wooten
Raphael Saadiq chronology
Stone Rollin`
(2011) Jimmy Lee
(2019)

Jimmy Lee is the fifth studio album by American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Raphael Saadiq. It was released on August 23, 2019 by Columbia Records. Recorded at Saadiq`s personal studio in North Hollywood, it follows the critical success of his 2011 album Stone Rollin` and a period of years spent working on other musical projects, particularly those associated with African-American culture.

Departing from the upbeat retro stylings of Saadiq`s previous albums, Jimmy Lee explores themes of stress, addiction, family dysfunction, financial burden, mortality, and mass incarceration, particularly in the context of African-American life. It uses murkier, more modern R&B sounds and a song cycle of personal narratives, inspired in part by the singer`s older brother, who died from a heroin overdose when Saadiq was young, and after whom the album is titled. Saadiq, who played bass, guitar, and percussion, was joined in its recording by drummer Chris Dave, producer Brook D`Leau, engineer Gerry Brown, vocalist Taura Stinson, and rapper Kendrick Lamar, among others.

While performing modestly on record charts, Jimmy Lee received widespread acclaim and earned Saadiq some of the best reviews of his solo career. Critics applauded its ambitious sonic qualities and the singer`s navigation through the complexities of its lyrical tragedies. Saadiq toured the US in early 2020 to further support the album, accompanied by singer-songwriter Jamila Woods as his opening act.

Background
Raphael Saadiq`s solo career has been haunted by the ghosts of tormented men and women. ... He`s walked a fine line between approaching these self-destructive figures—stand-ins for the ruptures and trauma in African-American communities—with empathy and pity.

— Ann-Derrick Gaillot (Pitchfork, 2019)[1]
Jimmy Lee is Saadiq`s fifth album as a solo artist and his first in eight years,[2] following the critically acclaimed Stone Rollin` (2011).[3] In between albums, he had worked on various projects and recordings, including executive production of the Solange album A Seat at the Table (2016), score composition for the TV series Insecure, and co-writing of the Mary J. Blige song `Mighty River` (2017), which received an Academy Award nomination for its inclusion in the film Mudbound.[4] According to Pitchfork writer Ann-Derrick Gaillot, these ventures left Saadiq`s `fingerprints ... all over the past few years of Black American culture` and seemed to have `emboldened` him for Jimmy Lee.[1]

The album is named after and inspired in part by Saadiq`s brother, who died in the 1990s of a heroin overdose after contracting HIV. He was one of four siblings in Saadiq`s family to die tragically young.[5] As Dylan Hicks chronicles for City Pages, `brother Alvie was murdered in a dispute with a family member when Raphael was a boy; Jimmy Lee Baker, much older than Raphael, had a long struggle with heroin that eventually led to a fatal overdose; another brother, Desmond, a suicide, also battled chemical dependency; a sister, Sarah, was killed after backing her car into a police chase.`[6]



Jimmy Lee track listing
No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. `Sinners Prayer`
Raphael SaadiqTaura Stinson
Saadiq 4:34
2. `So Ready`
SaadiqBrook D`Leau
SaadiqD`Leau
4:19
3. `This World Is Drunk` Saadiq Saadiq 4:24
4. `Something Keeps Calling` (featuring Rob Bacon) Saadiq Saadiq 4:44
5. `Kings Fall`
SaadiqDylan Wiggins
SaadiqSir Dylan
2:46
6. `I`m Feeling Love`
SaadiqD`Leau
SaadiqD`Leau
3:04
7. `My Walk`
SaadiqCharlie Bereal
SaadiqBereal
2:16
8. `Belongs to God` (featuring Reverend E. Baker)
SaadiqElijah Baker Sr.
Saadiq 2:05
9. `Dottie Interlude`
SaadiqD`Leau
SaadiqD`Leau
0:06
10. `Glory to the Veins` (featuring Ernest Turner)
SaadiqCharles Brungardt
SaadiqBrungardt
2:05
11. `Rikers Island` Saadiq
SaadiqD`LeauWooten
3:39
12. `Rikers Island Redux` (featuring Daniel J. Watts) Saadiq Saddiq 2:57
13. `Rearview` (featuring Kendrick Lamar)
SaadiqKendrick Duckworth
Saadiq 2:28
Total length: 39:27

Personnel
Credits are adapted from AllMusic.[30]

Raphael Saadiq – bass guitar, guitar, percussion, additional synthesizer programming
Taura Stinson – background vocals
Chris Dave – drums
Rob Bacon – guitar
Thomas McElroy – additional synthesizer
Daniel Crawford – additional synthesizer
Lemar Carter – drums
Sir Dylan – piano, recording engineering
Ernest Turner – piano
Brook D`Leau – drums
Charlie Bereal – guitar
Jairus Mozee – guitar
Ali Shaheed Muhammad – congas
Kelvin Wooten – upright piano, B-3 Organ
Gerry `The Gov` Brown – recording engineering
Hotae Alexander Jang – recording engineering, mix engineering
Charles Brungardt – recording engineering, mix engineering
Steve Rusch – recording engineering
Dave Kutch – mastering