EPISODE 158

In the year 2000, D'Angelo released Voodoo—with some help from Questlove, Angie Stone, Raphael Saadiq, and a band of jazz veterans—an album that has cast a long shadow with its unique sound of stripped-down soul, Faith Pennick, who literally wrote the book on the record, joins to break how D'Angelo broke the "shiny suit" regime of R&B, explore how he conjured the spirits of J Dilla, Prince, and Roberta Flack, and consider how one video almost derailed his career.

Check out D'Angelo's Voodoo by Faith Pennick, from Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Series

SONGS DISCUSSED

D'Angelo - The Line, The Root, Spanish Joint, Chicken Grease, Untitled (How Does it Feel)

Rev JC Burnett - Amazing Grace

Prince - Kiss

Justin Timberlake - Damn Girl

Thundercat - Them Changes

Slum Village - CB4

Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola - There Used to be a Nightclub There

Roy Hargrove - Strasbourg / St. Denis

Solange - Cranes in the Sky