The Chronicles of the Underrated: Angie Stone

Dream, 2015

Where does Stone’s seventh album Dream fall in the ranks? It’s another well-rounded effort as to be expected that likely can’t change the narrative of Stone’s career, but shows her perseverance in spite of this. For true fans who admire Stone’s tremendous musicianship like myself, when I received my copy of Dream I was ecstatic – “After three years a new Angie Stone album!”

Unfortunately, in a time where R&B as a whole has cooled almost to glacial proportions, others don’t express that same elation. Even so, Stone has accepted her lot in the music biz and hasn’t allowed it to inhibit her from doing what she loves. 2015’s Dream is a perfect example of that. She’s never received her just due – her albums and songs rise above their modest performance – but Stone is undoubtedly one of the most soulful artists ever. As Randy Jackson once said on American Idol – maybe more than once actually, “when you got it, you just got it,” and Stone has it regardless of the RIAA or Billboard charts.

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