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Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night) singer

Yusuf

Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night) singer

The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens with more acoustic folk/pop

ADM rating[?]

6.2

Label
Island
UK Release date
04/05/2009
  1. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    All we can do is thank his son for bringing that acoustic guitar back into the family home, which helped Yusuf to finally let the “Cat” out of the bag once again in a time when the world needs his message of positivity more than ever before. Not to mention the greater understanding of the Muslim faith that he hopes to bring to the masses too scared of the minor percentage who use the religion as a weapon to truly appreciate it
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  2. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    When you think of Islam's best music, you think of his talent for direct communication, often with just a guitar to help him out - and those are the moments where Roadsinger comes alive.
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  3. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    The chances are that those who enjoyed the Cat of old will find Roadsinger a cosy return to previous form.
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  4. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Roadsinger is a crowd-pleaser, hewing to Yusuf's classic sound in tight, sweet ballads
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  5. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Could easily be slotted in among Tillerman, Teaser And The Firecat and Buddha And The Chocolate Box so smoothly does it replicate the easygoing troubadour sensibility of his Seventies work.
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  6. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    This is a genuinely fascinating album... a much more determined attempt to first reclaim the territory he owned back in the 1970s, then to find a new voice.
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  7. 6.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Familiar old melodies dance around this latest batch of companionable folk-rock numbers,
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