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Wild Seed – Wild Flower

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Released
  
October 25, 1994

Length
  
62:47

Release date
  
25 October 1994

Recorded
  
1993-1994

Artist
  
Dionne Farris

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Wild Seed, Wild Flower (1994)
  
For Truth If Not Love (2007)

Genres
  
Funk, Alternative hip hop, Pop rock, Folk rock

Producers
  
Dionne Farris, Randy Jackson, David Frank

Dionne Farris albums
  
Zingalamaduni, 3 Years - 5 Months, Unplugged

Wild Seed – Wild Flower is the debut full-length album by Dionne Farris, which she recorded after singing the song "Tennessee" by the alternative hip hop group Arrested Development. Rather than continue with Arrested Development, she made a solo record with members of the band Follow for Now, David Ryan Harris and Billy Fields. The lead single, "I Know" (which allmusic's Tom Demalon called "percolating and infectious"), peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I Know" (Milton Davis, William DuVall) 3:49
  2. "Reality" (Farris, Billy Fields, Skitch Lovett) 4:42
  3. "Stop to Think" (Farris, Lenny Kravitz) 5:29
  4. "Passion" (Farris, Fields, Lovett) 5:44
  5. "Food for Thought" (Farris, David Harris) 6:35
  6. "Now Or Later" (Farris, Fields, Lovett) 5:19
  7. "Don't Ever Touch Me (Again)" (Farris, Harris) 4:27
  8. "11th Hour" (Farris, David Frank) 4:46
  9. "Water" (Dionne Farris, Billy Fields) 4:06
  10. "Blackbird" (Lennon, McCartney) 3:08
  11. "Old Ladies" (discussion of "Blackbird") 0:27
  12. "Human" (Farris) 3:04
  13. "Find Your Way" (Farris, Tim Heintz, Randy Jackson) 5:44
  14. "The Audition" (skit) 1:38
  15. "I Know" (NY Reprise Mix) (Davis, DuVall) 3:49

Personnel

  • Dionne Farris: Main Vocals, Vocal Arrangements
  • Paul Barrere (slide), Bruce Gaitsch, Skitch Lovette, Tony Ruffin: Guitars
  • David Ryan Harris: Guitars, Keyboards, Drums, Percussion, Drum Programming, Vocal Backing
  • Billy Fields, David Frank, Tim Heintz, David Kahne, Carl Young: Keyboards
  • Steve Twyman: Organ
  • Milton Davis, Randy Jackson, Lonnie Marshall: Bass
  • Anthony Johnson, Ju Ju House: Drums
  • John Mitchell: Drums, Percussion, Drum Programming
  • Pete Escovedo, Jeff Haynes: Percussion
  • Joel Derouin: Violin
  • Suzie Katayama: Cello
  • Russell Mullen: Trumpet
  • Leesa Richards, Terry Shelton: Vocal Backing
  • String Arranged By Dionne Farris

    • Reception

    "I Know" was the only hit from the album, but Tom Demalon wrote that the album's "charms run much deeper" than the hit single. However, critic Brent Mann expressed the opposite view, stating that the other songs "lacked energy and direction" and in one case turned "plodding and ponderous."

    Songs

    1I Know3:48
    2Reality4:43
    3Stop to Think5:29

    References

    Wild Seed – Wild Flower Wikipedia
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