Soul. Steaming, solid soul! From Boston, just like Eli 'Paperboy' Reed, with whom Jesse Dee now also shares producer Jack Younger in the Basement 247 studio. We're a superb soul-rock CD richer: Jesse Dee's debut: Bittersweet Batch, 'Almost Entirely In Stereo' and out on Munich Records!
HUMO wrote: '3*/4 The pearly gates swing wide open when Jesse Dee begins to sing. Forty years ago he would have been received as an amazing debutant, with a velvet voice that reminds one of Solomon Burke and Al Green in turn ... The songs on 'Bittersweet Batch' are overwhelming, each and every one, marinated as they are in pitch-black soul or serrated R&B. By R&B we mean: good old rhythm & blues.'
DE STANDAARD too: 'a fantastic singer... he sings especially high and supple, with just the right gospel-glow that this music needs... Connoisseurs will quickly be able to hear that this man is no slavish imitator: he mixes the styles of Stax and Motown as if they'd always belonged together... Great discovery!'
Recently here for a cast-iron solo AB session. On 1 October fully-blown and full blast in the ABClub!