CeeLo Green is Thomas Calloway-Album Review:

 

    CeeLo Green has been in the music industry for more than 20 years where he has done it all in terms of a music career. He has been a part of a rap group called the Goodie Mob, his own solo rap career, his own solo pop career, and his collaboration with Danger Mouse which was the alternative rock group Gnarls Barkley. He has won five Grammy awards, countless other awards and his single “Forget You” from his pop album “The Lady Killer” hit number two. What else could he venture into that shows off his wide range of talents? He already did a Christmas album so the next venture was a solo soul/R&B album that demonstrates his vocals talents and his songwriting ability, as he wrote every song but one on this album.

            Thomas Calloway is his given birth name as he decided to go by to show the world a different side of him with these very emotional, soft spoken and beautiful tracks. It is just another chapter into his wide range of discography with this album and the only real problem with the album is a lot of the songs are hard to differentiate between. This is a great album since none of the songs are bad and it has real music throughout the album.

            The songs that really stick out are “Lead me”, “For you”, “Doing it All together”, “Down with the Sun” and “The Way” as they show off his good vocals in this genre of R&B-Soul and are super catchy. He then has two songs about his daughter in “Little Mama” and “Don’t Lie” about being lucky to have her/proud of her and how he raised her.

            The song where you can tell how emotional he gets is “I wonder how love feels” as he is worried about being hurt and wants to know what real love is with someone. The song he didn’t write “Slow down” is still sung beautifully as well as catchy. While “People Watching“   is catchy too it’s just a weird song. Songs “You gotta do it all” and “Thinking out loud” are also his other super emotional songs.

    This isn’t his best album or even has his best songs ever, but when an album has no bad songs where all of them are catchy, it has real music, shows off his beautiful voice (vocal range) and song writing skills it translates to a very good album. It just shows how versatile of an artist CeeLo Green is as it just adds another chapter to his already accomplished music career and to his diverse discography.