Deep Album Cuts Vol. 387: Angie Stone
Angie Stone died at the age of 63 in a car crash in March after a concert in Alabama, so I wanted to look back at her catalog, she was a hugely talented vocalist with a pretty interesting career.
2. Lovers' Ghetto
3. Bone 2 Pic (Wit U)
4. Perfect
5. Begin Again featuring Dave Hollister
6. Come Home (Live With Me)
7. Pissed Off
8. Green Grass Vapors
9. My People featuring James Ingram
10. Sisters
11. Easier Said Than Done
12. You Don't Love Me
13. High
14. Man Loves His Money
15. The Ingredients of Love featuring Musiq Soulchild
16. I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will be Forever)
17. Why Is It
18. Gonna Have To Be You featuring Jaheim
19. Take Everything In
Tracks 3, 8, and 14 from Black Diamond (1999)
Tracks 1, 7, 11, and 15 from Mahogany Soul (2001)
Tracks 2, 6, and 12 from Stone Love (2004)
Tracks 9 and 19 from The Art of Love & War (2007)
Track 17 from Unexpected (2009)
Track 10 from Rich Girl (2012)
Track 5 from Dream (2015)
Track 16 from Covered In Soul (2016)
Tracks 4 and 18 from Full Circle (2019)
Track 13 from Love Language (2023)
By the time Angie Stone released her first solo album, she was almost 40 and had already made a lot of music. She was in The Sequence, the first all-female rap group on wax, which released three albums on Sugar Hill Records in the early '80s. In the '90s, she was in an R&B trio, Vertical Hold, that released two major label albums with a few charting singles, and made an album with the group DeVox that was only released in Japan. And she co-wrote several songs on the first two albums by D'Angelo, who she was in a relationship with and had a child with.
So Angie Stone was kind of part of hip-hop soul and neo-soul as those sounds were developing, and you can hear a lot of that in solo work. There's not a lot of guest rappers on her albums, aside from the one big single she did with Snoop, but some of my favorite tracks by her were with hip-hop producers. "Bone 2 Pic (Wit U)" was produced by Ali Shaheed Muhammed from A Tribe Called Quest, and "Perfect" was produced by Kay Gee from Naughty By Nature. "Lovers' Ghetto" also makes good use of the sample from Camp Lo's "Luchini AKA This Is It." "Pissed Off" and "Easier Said Than Done" were some of her most frequently performed songs that weren't singles. Her 2016 covers album Covered In Soul featured a rendition of one of my favorite Stevie Wonder deep cuts.
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