Alabama Mike - Stuff I've Been Through

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2023
Time: 60:27 
Size: 138,9 MB 
Label: Little Village Foundation 
Styles: Blues/Soul/Funk/R&B
Art: Front+ Back 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Stuff I've Been Through - 4:52
 2. Fat Shame, Pt. 1 - 4:53
 3. This Ain't No Dizneyland - 6:27
 4. Goodbye Tamika - 4:44
 5. King Cock - 4:55
 6. Pine Bluff, Arkansas (Big Fine Woman) - 5:19
 7. Woman On The Warpath - 4:18
 8. Damage Control - 5:07
 9. Fat Shame, Pt. 2 - 5:22
10. Mississippi (Live) - 6:48
11. God Is with You (Live) - 7:38

Anyone listening to Alabama Mike has a simple choice: Brace yourself for some raw and sometimes uncomfortable truth, or run the other way. His new album, ‘Stuff I’ve Been Through,’ is loaded with 11 original songs that pit Alabama Mike face-to-face with what he sees in today’s society. The album  features Alabama Mike (Michael Benjamin) at his most outspoken. It weaves from old-school Southern soul to straight-ahead blues to the earthy street-funk and R&B gleaned from his blue-collar neighborhood of Richmond, Calif., where he has lived for the past 25 years. And, there’s a gospel power to this music that increases its intensity.“My reality might be different, but that doesn’t make it wrong,” Mike says. “It just reflects me. As an artist, you have to know what you are, and more importantly, what you are not.”Produced by Christoffer “Kid” Andersen at Greaseland in San Jose, Calif., the album shows unabashed candor, beginning with the survivor’s tale of the title cut. Alabama Mike recounts life’s missteps and emerges battered with the knowledge that a higher power pulled him through.This is evidence that Alabama Mike is one of the few blues artists today who writes strong, memorable songs that are simultaneously unique, but steeped in blues tradition. He writes about modern themes, making his music work in a way that’s natural and not contrived. The songs reflect his personality: unabashed, self-assured and swaggering at times.The music is raw-edged yet reflects the complex and realistic person that is Alabama Mike.
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Stuff I've Been Through