Til The Casket Drops(Explicit Version) CD

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Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Til the Casket Drops ~ ZZ Ward

2. Put the Gun Down ~ ZZ Ward

3. Blue Eyes Blind ~ ZZ Ward

4. Home ~ ZZ Ward

5. Cryin Wolf - (featuring Kendrick Lamar) ~ ZZ Ward

6. Save My Life ~ ZZ Ward

7. Last Love Song ~ ZZ Ward

8. Lil Darlin ~ ZZ Ward

9. Move Like U Stole It ~ ZZ Ward

10. Criminal - (featuring Freddie Gibbs) ~ ZZ Ward

11. If I Could Be Her ~ ZZ Ward

12. Charlie Ain't Home ~ ZZ Ward

13. 365 Days ~ ZZ Ward

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Audio Mixer: Neal H. Pogue.
	Recording information: Ahh Haa Studios, Hollywood, CA; Boardwalk Records, Los Angeles, CA; Eargasm Studios, Santa Monica, CA; Fairfax Recordings; Hyperion Sound; Northern Recording Studio, Yorba, CA; Rusk Studio, Hollywood, CA; Sound City, Van Nuys, CA; TDE Red Room Recording Studios; Westlake Recording Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
	Photographers: Leann Mueller; Huy Doan; Zack McTee; Rony Alwin.
	ZZ Ward grew up in the small town of Roseberg, Oregon listening to the blues albums in her father's collection and her brother's hip-hop records. By the time she was 12, she was fronting her father's blues band and learning how to control an audience. By 16 she was driving to Eugene to sing with hip-hop acts and soon moved on to L.A. in hopes of making it in the music business. Along the way, she developed a style that's a winning combination of blues, hip-hop, rock, R&B, and pop. Her influences all come together on her debut, a collection that should make her a star if there's any justice in the world. Ward has a wonderfully flexible voice, she can croon like a pop singer, growl like a blues woman, spit attitude like a rocker, and flow like a rapper. There's not a single weak track on her 13-song debut, and several of them sound like hits. Despite its dark title, "Til the Casket Drops" is a profession of undying love that combines a hip-hop verse with a soaring pop chorus. Ward's delivery is marked by the intense passion of jubilant love. "Move Like U Stole It" is a funky rocker with a strong vocal marked by Ward's wordless vocal ornamentations. "Home" is a smoldering R&B ballad with a hint of bossa nova in the rhythm track. "Last Love Song" is a quiet pop tune that mourns the end of a relationship with Ward putting a lifetime of anguish into her understated vocal, and "If I Could Be Her" updates the girl group sound for the 21st century. "Criminal" is Ward's reimagining of the Freddie Gibbs hit "Oil Money." Gibbs liked Ward's version so much that he added a rap to the track to complement her soulful vocal. In case you're wondering, Ward's initials aren't a tribute to ZZ Top or Z.Z. Hill, it's just a shortened version of her given name, Zsuzsanna, also the name of her Mother and Hungarian grandmother. ~ j. poet
Musical Guests
	Kendrick Lamar
	The O' My's
	Freddie Gibbs

Artist Overview

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist ZZ Ward spent her childhood splitting her listening time between her father's blues collection and her brother's hip-hop records, a blend that would be a big part of her sound and style. She was singing in her father's blues band by the time she was 12, and by 16 she was singing with hip-hop acts. Moving to L.A., Ward's unique blend of blues, rock, hip-hop, R&B, and neo-soul brought her a recording deal with Boardwalk Entertainment Group, and she began work on a debut album. A free mixtape, Eleven Roses, appeared in February 2012, with an EP, Criminal, following in May, and Til the Casket Drops, the completed album, showed up that October. ~ Steve Leggett.

Artist Influences
Amy Winehouse | Janis Joplin

Artist Contemporaries
Adele | Christina Aguilera | Joss Stone

Technical Info

	Release Date : 10/16/2012
	Original Release Date : 2012
	Catalog ID : D 001721492
	Label : Hollywood
	Number of Discs : 1
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00050087276775

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Til The Casket Drops(Explicit Version) (2012)

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