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Thurgood Marshall Jones, Jr. delivers “State of the World”!
“State Of The World “is the highly anticipated debut album from music artist/producer Thurgood Marshall Jones, Jr. Born into a family of musicians and singers, this artist has uses both his natural talents and classical piano training to write and produce a collection of great songs for an array of listeners to enjoy! Powerful musically, lyrically, politically, and quite frankly, spiritually, this album takes its audience on an emotional rollercoaster for 51 minutes and culminates into you wanting more! You are locked in from the start with an interesting and suspenseful intro. Then it unfolds into 11 tracks with positive messages of life, love, and freedom of expression underlined with fantastic musicianship and production. The conscious awareness of the listener is expanded with tracks like “Bye-Bye (Keep the Negative Away)”, “Face the Sun” and “I Need Assistance”. The fun-loving, but quite candid spirit of Thurgood is felt in tracks like “Funk Back”, “Naima (Hey Pretty Lady)”, and “Black Music Rhapsody”. The title cut “State of the World” is a catchy hook built around an awesome arrangement of bass, drums, keys, and strings, topped with a powerful vocal performance from featured artist Shaleyah Grant. Thurgood exposes his vulnerabilities to love in the timeless ballads “Where are You” and the beautiful duet featuring Chanda Leigh McKnight titled “I’ll Be True”. The motivating and inspirational messages permeating from the album comes full circle in “Everyday”, a universal theme song. Time, Thurgood, and his artistic collaborations has giving birth to the greatest album released in 2012!