John Legend & The Roots
Wake Up!

Supporting Obama in 2008 seems to have given R&B artist John Legend something of a social and political awareness boost. This now resulted in a collab...

Although I'm incredulous that anyone would be "inspired" by Obama's presidential performance, John Legend & The Roots nevertheless claim that as the m...

For me the pairing of MOR soul-popper John Legend with pioneering hip-hop supergroup The Roots was a less than inspired idea. Legend has a pleasant vo...

A welcome return, given these troubled times, for the singer who has become the beacon of modern, intelligent, inspirational soul music, and with a co...

In music, timing is everything. Just like a syncopated snare drum snap slipping snugly into the pocket of a laid-back funk rhythm, this album, two yea...

"Eating Spam, Oreos, drinking Thunderbird baby" - not everyone will share John Legend's experience of Hard Times on the opening track but you'd have t...

Re-imaging works of art is always a complicated process. Being loyal to the source material while at the same time incorporating one’s individual sty...

Theres never a wrong time to revisit the core values of Seventies soul and funk, though it may have been more effective for John Legend & The Roots ...

For many, 2008’s political landscape represented hope in the midst of so-much-bullshit. We won’t forget where we were when America elected its 44th pr...

Few musicians seem to make overtly political records these days: the Iraq war moved few songwriters to sing out, and despite its catastrophic effects,...