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Close your eyes and listen to Tony Toni Tone's graceful new CD and you may think you're hearing one of those sidewalk sale records. The Tonyies are lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins, his guitarist brother D'wayne Wiggins, and their cousin, drummer Timothy Christian Riley. They're all in their mid-20s, and this CD is an R.-and-B. tribute to the music they grew up with. My Ex- Girlfriend borrows the bridge from Sly and the Family Stone's 1968 song M'Lady. As another cut fades, Raphael sings, "Last night a D.J. saved...
...Jackson 5 (without copying them), and then inventively toys with the groove in a horn break. Near the end of the funky What Goes Around Comes Around, the Tonyies throw in a reggae rap, performed by Trinidadian rapper General Grant. And on the 9-minute song Anniversary, Raphael sings of mature, lasting love over a sea of strings: "I've only made plans to hold your little hand/ It's our anniversary...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, John Goodman, Raphael Joa, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, John Goodman, Raphael Joa, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, John Dragonetti, Raphael Joa, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Robert Pfleger, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Paul White