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Back to Now
| Back to Now | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | October 21, 2008 April 20, 2009 (UK) | |||
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| Length | 49:22 | |||
| Label | Verve, Universal | |||
| Producer | Lenny Kravitz, Wyclef Jean, Gamble & Huff | |||
| Labelle chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Back to Now | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| About.com |   [3] |
| Allmusic | [4] |
| BBC Music | favorable[1] |
| Baltimore Sun | [5] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[6] |
| The Miami Herald | [10] |
| Record Collector | [7] |
| Robert Christgau |  [8] |
| The Village Voice | favorable[9] |
Back to Now is the seventh studio album by American female vocal group Labelle, released on October 21, 2008. The album is the group's first in over thirty years though they had sung on songs together on occasion.
Labelle member Nona Hendryx explained the album's title to noted R&B writer Pete Lewis of Blues & Soul: "It basically stemmed from two of the songs on this album being songs I'd specifically written for what would have been the next Labelle album back in 1977. So the title 'Back To Now" is really signifying that this record represents us really getting back to where we were. It's basically a continuation from where we stopped off."[11]
The first single is "Roll Out", which features and is produced by Wyclef Jean which had the three Labelle members Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash singing in autotune.
The album is also notable for the modest R&B charted ballad, "Superlover". Except for "The Truth Will Set You Free", originally recorded by Mother's Finest, in which Hendryx sings the lead over Lenny Kravitz's guitar and LaBelle's ad-libs in soprano and "System", which LaBelle, Hendryx and Dash each take a prominent lead vocal, the album is led as always by LaBelle, who gives a powerful vocal in the socially conscious "Tears for the World", a Hendryx composition.
The album is also notable for their tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks with "Dear Rosa" and also includes their 1971 rendition of the Cole Porter standard, "Miss Otis Regrets", which was originally recorded for sessions of their Warner debut, Labelle, but was cut from the album's final selection of tracks.
An iTunes edition of the album features the group's cover of Sylvester's disco hit, "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)".
- ^ a b c Easlea, Daryl. "BBC - Music - Review of Labelle - Back To Now". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ Echols, Alice (March 29, 2010). "Ladies' Night: Women and Disco". Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-393-06675-3.
- ^ "Labelle - "Back to Now"". Archived from the original on 2008-10-26. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ "Baltimore Sun review". Baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "Entertainment Weekly review". Ew.com. Archived from the original on October 17, 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "LaBelle - Back to Now CD Album". Cduniverse.com. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "Robert Christgau: CG: Labelle". Robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "The Village Voice review". Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "3 Into 1 Does Go: Pete Lewis Interviews Labelle". Blues & Soul. Retrieved 2009-09-10.
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