Anthony Hamilton - Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort - 4.5 stars

This is another strong collection from one of my favorite young singers. I fell in love with Anthony Hamilton's voice on his breakthrough "debut", COMIN FROM WHERE I'M FROM and have continued to collect any and all offerings from him and so far have not been disappointed.

On this collection I discovered that this man has amazing range - I never heard him sing in his falsetto till he did it on on of my favorite tracks on this disc, PLEASE - a beautiful ballad. I agree with one poster's comment that a mainstream record label probably would have shelved this collection but luckily an indie label saw fit to release it.

My favorite tracks are: NEVER GIVE UP - the vocal & musical arrangements are great & I especially love hearing the organ/wurlitzer in the background; THEY DON'T KNOW - excellent funkdified muscial arrangement; WHY - the lyrics plaintively speak about Anthony's struggles in the music biz; DON'T SAY WHAT YOU WON'T DO - I love how he sang in every vocal register he's capable of and FALLIN IN LOVE - a beautiful ballad.

I could keep scratching my head and wondering why this young man's music isn't fully embraced or supported but instead, I think I'll just press "repeat" and continue to enjoy the music. I'd highly recommend this collection to new and old fans. May 27, 2008

Beautiful

This CD is typical Anthony Hamilton and it does not disappoint. It's one that I had to cop two copies of, one for the car and one for home. One of the very few CD's out there that you can put on and listen to in its entirety. I definitely recommend this selection to any and all... December 28, 2007

It doesn't get much better than this

Considering the way that Anthony Hamilton's albums are generally released, I'm not sure if Southern Comfort is a true album full of new material (especially because it's on a label that I've never heard of) or if it's just a collection of unreleased tracks like Soulife was. But whatever the case, there ain't a thing wrong with it.

Actually, I just found out that this IS an album of unreleased tracks, and now that I think about it, this album is to R&B what Nas' The Lost Tapes is to rap: it makes you wonder why these songs were left off the proper studio albums. This collection never runs out of highlights, like "Better Love", "They Don't Know" and "Sailin' Away". And "Please" surprised me, because I had no idea that he could do falsetto.

Anthony also does a great job when he goes political, like in "Don't Say What You Won't Do". In fact, I can list every song on here as being great. There is also apparently an explicit version of the album because of a few choice words he says on "Glad U Called" (good luck trying to find it), but at any rate, Southern Comfort will give you just that.

Anthony Rupert November 12, 2007

His best buy it!

I can understand why a profit-seeking major label, which can be interpreted as narrow-minded, would not release this album. There is no song that one could readily identify as a single (except for maybe Better Love). Yet this is in my opinion his best album. As a true fan of Mr. Hamilton I may be biased but this is a seminal album that truly appears to reflect someone's experience. Music can be intended to make us shake our rumps, which is fine, we need that some times. In my opinion music is the easiest art form for people to relate to. Easier than paintings, sculpture or poetry that we may not be able to explain how they move us. Music is more literal. I can relate to every song on this album, link it to different timepoints in my life or people around me that I love. To be honest I can say this about all of his albums but this is beyond deep. I'm talking Marvin Gaye, 70's - "Here my Dear" deep! Buy it! September 27, 2007

Indie is even better

I love Anthony's music and this release is even better than the Major Labels ones. August 31, 2007

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