Coming Home (Deluxe)
Leon Bridges’ retro-soul debut is so impressively dead-on you might wonder where he parked his time machine. Channeling the buttoned-up charm of Sam Cooke and the mellower side of Otis Redding (as well as contemporary throwbacks like Raphael Saadiq), *Coming Home* captures a moment in the early \'60s where gospel met blues and blossomed into doo-wop and soul. It was the period-perfect title track that helped Bridges gain an audience beyond his Texas hometown, but the swaying dedication to his mother, “Lisa Sawyer,” is every bit as lovely.
Leon Bridges is a 25-year-old Fort Worth native with a golden voice, and his Columbia debut deftly recalls all the well-bronzed giants of soul—your Aretha, your Otis, and especially, in Bridges' case, Sam Cooke.
For 25-year-old Leon Bridges, the comparisons to Sam Cooke are inevitable because of this music.
The question with Leon Bridges is authenticity, and the Fort Worth, Texas singer-songwriter/musician exonerates himself nicely with major la...
There’s no doubting his retro-soul chops, but Leon Bridges seems yet to find the best way to use them
The 25-year-old Texan singer-songwriter's slinky, Sam Cooke-like sound is full of heart