{"id":13174,"date":"2016-07-08T16:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2016-08-19T16:35:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:35:13","slug":"will-downing-black-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/releases\/will-downing-black-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Downing &#8211; Black Pearls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.juno.co.uk\/player-embed\/SF617165-01-01-01.mp3\/?pl=false&#038;pn=false\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Will Downing, widely known as The Prince of Sophisticated Soul, is an icon in both the R&#038;B and Jazz worlds. Having sold more than 4 million albums in his brilliant career, Will continues to tour nonstop to the delight of his devoted fans!<\/p>\n<p>Black Pearls is an homage to some of the greatest female vocalists in the history of R&#038;B: a collection of superstar R&#038;B songbird classics, re-imagined from a male point of view!<\/p>\n<p>Featuring guest appearances by Kirk Whalum and Najee and a full string ensemble, with arrangements and production by such superstar producers as Barry Eastmond (who has produced the likes of Aretha Franklin and Anita Baker) and Chris &#8220;Big Dog&#8221; Davis (George Clinton, Najee, Kim Burrell), Black Pearls is the crowning achievement of Will Downing&#8217;s 28 year career!<\/p>\n<p>The track listing tells the story: Street Life &#8211; originally by Randy Crawford, Black Butterfly &#8211; originally by Deniece Williams, Get Here &#8211; originally by Brenda Russell, Meet Me On The Moon &#8211; originally by Phyllis Hyman, Don&#8217;t Ask My Neighbors &#8211; originally by The Emotions, Your Smile &#8211; originally by Angela Winbush, Everlasting Love &#8211; originally by Chaka Khan and much more!<\/p>\n<p>Label: Shanachie<br \/>\nCat. No.:<br \/>\nRelease Date:July 8, 2016<br \/>\nFormat: CD<br \/>\nGenre: R&#038;B\/Soul<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Pearls-Will-Downing\/dp\/B01K8L8TM6?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7HPQDOBIXXNVHTA&#038;tag=motfm-20&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=2025&#038;creative=165953&#038;creativeASIN=B01K8L8TM6\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Buy from Amazon<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.juno.co.uk\/products\/will-downing-black-pearls\/617165-01\/?ref=motionfm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Buy from JUNO Records<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tracklist<br \/>\nSide 1<br \/>\n1.\t&#8220;Everything i Miss At Home&#8221;<br \/>\n2.\t&#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask My Neighbors&#8221;<br \/>\n3.\t&#8220;Your Smile&#8221;<br \/>\n4.\t&#8220;Get Here&#8221;<br \/>\n5.\t&#8220;Street Life&#8221;<br \/>\n6.\t&#8220;Everlasting Love&#8221;<br \/>\n7.\t&#8220;Black Butterflly&#8221;<br \/>\n8.\t&#8220;Nights Over Egypt&#8221;<br \/>\n9.\t&#8220;Meet me On The Moon&#8221;<br \/>\n10.\t&#8220;Don&#8217;t Let It Go To Your Head&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gXvnzrdpmLQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Downing, widely known as The Prince of Sophisticated Soul, is an icon in both the R&#038;B and Jazz worlds. Having &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13176,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions\/13176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}