Track Listing 1. Doing What I Can 2. Body Parts 3. Be Here - (featuring D'Angelo) 4. Still Ray 5. Oph 6. You're the One I Like 7. Excuse Me - (featuring Angie Stone/Calvin Richardson) 8. Charlie Ray 9. Different Times - (featuring T-Boz) 10. Tick Tock 11. People 12. Tek #1 13. Faithful 14. Make My Day 15. Blindman 16. Tek #2 17. Uptown 18. What's Life Like 19. Skyy, Can You Feel Me
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Angie Stone, Calvin Richardson, D'Angelo, T-Boz | | Producer: | Raphael Saadiq | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel includes: Raphael Saadiq (vocals, guitar, bass); D'Angelo, Angie Stone, Calvin Richardson, T-Boz. INSTANT VINTAGE was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album. "Be Here" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song and Best Urban/Alternative Performance. Though Raphael Saadiq kicked around for much of the '90s, working as bassist, guitarist, and producer for everyone from D'Angelo to the Bee Gees and contributing his own cuts to the soundtracks of such films as RIDE, BABY BOY, and HIGHER LEARNING, 2002's INSTANT VINTAGE is--incredibly enough--his first full-length solo album. The title of the album--and the involvement of such luminaries as Angie Stone and the aforementioned D'Angelo--should be a clue as to the sound here. While Saadiq fully avails himself of cutting-edge production and technology, he's more interested in Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye than in R. Kelly. While he doesn't wave his history-conscious tendencies like a flag, there's more melodicism and good old-fashioned soul to these tunes than you'll find of many contemporaneous R&B recordings.
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