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Just when you thought the 21st century retro-R&B revolution was grinding to a sunken-hearted halt, Ryan Shaw comes along and revives the revivalist moment: This Is Ryan Shaw, the 26-year-old's phenomenal debut, dazzles not just because he can sing a song like Bobby Womack's "Lookin' for a Love" without letting the rear-view mirror leach him of his own soul, but because his originals--first single "Nobody," "We Got Love," and set closer "Over and Done"--convincingly replicate the classic sound of such forebears as Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, and Wilson Pickett. Here's a man who can plead, please, and play out love-struck dramas with his voice as though the '60s never ended; if his sound borrows heavily, it pays back what it owes with genuine contributions to the genre. Shaw's is real R&B without the raunch
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Do the 45
2 We Got Love
3 Nobody
4 I Am Your Man
5 Working on a Building of Love
6 I Found a Love
7 I Do the Jerk
8 Lookin' for a Love
9 I'll Always Love You
10 I'll Be Satisfied
11 Mish Mash
12 Over & Done
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