joss stone, 2007

joss stone turned twenty a bare six months before this hard sensual performance with jeff beck's lyrical electric guitar ... i hardly know whether i consider her to be a real great soul singer or just an incredible cameleon, walking bare feet wherever she happens to sing, so as not to lose essential vital vibrations (i did it all the time while working at libération, so as not to feel tension and cowardness and agressivity too much) ... .... ... just enjoy it, man, and stop asking yourself stupid questions ... long live curtis mayfield and the impressions, anyway

people get ready/joss stone & jeff beck (november 2007)

i'll take you there, fabulous gospel/soul meeting between young joss stone, 19 years old at the time, and mavis staples, ex bob dylan's hard love (he desperatly wanted to marry her), recorded a few months earlier, in 2006