Wake Up!

Rating

Album: Wake Up!
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Hard Times
2)	Compared to What
3)	Wake Up Everybody
4)	Our Generation (The Hope of the World)
5)	Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude)
6)	Little Ghetto Boy
7)	Hang on in There
8)	Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be)
9)	Wholy Holy
10)	I Can't Write Left Handed
11)	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
12)	Shine

Album: Wake Up!
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Hard Times
2)	Compared to What
3)	Wake Up Everybody
4)	Our Generation (The Hope of the World)
5)	Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude)
6)	Little Ghetto Boy
7)	Hang on in There
8)	Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be)
9)	Wholy Holy
10)	I Can't Write Left Handed
11)	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
12)	Shine

Performer Notes

Featuring spirited covers of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' "Wake Up Everybody," Baby Huey & the Baby Sitters' "Hard Times," and Donny Hathaway's "Little Ghetto Boy" -- socially conscious soul cult classics and hits of the `60s and `70s -- Wake Up! is John Legend's fourth proper studio album. Backed throughout by the Roots, Wake Up! also features a Legend original, the uplifting "Shine."

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] brilliantly conceived and executed album, reviving music from the nixon-era heyday of politically engaged R&B."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.97) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "An admirably cocksure romp through Eugene McDaniels' 'Compared To What' ups the lyrical ante, with Legend bringing full-throated truth..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.51) - Ranked #48 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "Legend's plaintive, gospelly cadences had a previously absent edginess."

Paste (magazine) - "The album is organic and opulent, with a heart of diamonds a lush sound to match, and it delivers exactly what it promises: consciousness-raising tracks from spiritual-soul all-stars..."

Clash (magazine) - "[A] soulful reimagining of 60's and 70's urban protest songs....The concept of political awareness reigns supreme..."