'I Need A Dollar' is a deserved hit and, even just according to De Standaard: 'One of those singles that makes your day... Aloe Blacc has enough of that heart-warming stuff on his CD 'Good Things' to see you through a cold winter... he gives a new edge to that timeless genre... his voice is indeed as soft as lotion with aloe vera ...'

Real name is Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III and this American talent was previously mainly active rapping with Emanon. But what a fantastic turnaround and big breakthrough with second solo CD 'Good Things': bursting with soul and style but at the same time also with an honest message and heaps of respect for grandmasters like Bill Withers, Shuggie Otis, Otis Redding, Bobbie Womack, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green... at the same time Aloe Blacc is apparently not afraid of incredibly personal covers of The Velvet Underground, Sly Stone, Hall & Oates, Bob Marley, Green Day, John Legend, or even Michael Jackson!

Welcome to his house of 'love & happiness'! Allow Aloe Blacc & The Grand Scheme to warmly blow you over! Or, just another word from De Standaard after his cracking visit to Depot in Leuven: 'Blacc wants it all: street credibility and possession of diva-allures. He is too talented to get caught up in the showbizz web. Less is more, mister Blacc.' We're yet again looking forward to his extra long 'truth & soul production'!