Review
Joss Stone’s fur-lined voice sounds as though it belongs to a 50-year-old black woman with three failed marriages and a nicotine fetish. That she is actually white, British and just 16 is, consequently, barely conceivable. Discovered on British TV a couple of years ago, she soon found herself in Miami working with R&B icons Betty Wright and the Roots on this album of reworked, obscure soul classics by Laura Lee, Aretha Franklin and the Isley Brothers, alongside a brilliant, bluesy version of the White Stripes’ “Fell in Love With a Girl.” Stone’s voice is remarkably authentic, and the atmosphere she conjures is smoky and sleazy, pure mid-’60s Detroit. The combination could well appeal to all 10 million Norah Jones fans.
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