{"id":792814,"date":"2019-02-07T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=791191"},"modified":"2019-02-07T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:42:31","slug":"the-ojays-preview-first-album-in-15-years-with-soothing-i-got-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-ojays-preview-first-album-in-15-years-with-soothing-i-got-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The O\u2019Jays Preview First Album in 15 Years With Soothing \u2018I Got You\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSC_8893pt.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The O\u2019Jays rekindle the spirit \u2014 and the sumptuous sound \u2014 of Philadelphia soul in the Seventies on new single \u201cI Got You.\u201d The song will appear <a href=\"https:\/\/themightyojays.ffm.to\/thelastword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on\u00a0<em>The Last Word<\/em><\/a>, which the group says will be their final LP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Got You\u201d offers a message of reassurance in a time of political tumult: \u201cEven if the sky begins to fall, and even if they try to build that wall, and even if the bomb goes off and the world is set on fire, I got your back.\u201d \u201c<span>It\u2019s almost gospel,\u201d says the O\u2019Jays\u2019 Walter Williams. \u201cIt\u2019s good news. Whatever happens, don\u2019t worry about it \u2014 I\u2019m gonna be there. That\u2019s a hell of a statement. It works in a friendship; it works certainly in a relationship.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia producers like Thom Bell and Gamble and Huff were famous for swaddling soul in impeccable orchestral arrangements. That\u2019s the stuff of \u201cI Got You:\u201d Strings flutter and twirl above the singers, while muted brass swells beneath them.\u00a0The opening notes on the guitar in \u201cI Got You\u201d also hint at another Philadelphia classic, the Spinners\u2019 \u201cI\u2019ll Be Around.\u201d\u00a0<span>\u201c\u2018I Got You\u2019 is close to what the O\u2019Jays used to be,\u201d says founding member Eddie Levert.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Last Word<\/em> is set for release on April 19. The album includes contributions from the songwriter Sam Hollander \u2014 known more for pop and rock hits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/panic-at-the-disco-high-hopes-radio-success-786722\/\">like Panic! at the Disco\u2019s \u201cHigh Hopes\u201d<\/a> \u2014 and Betty Wright, another Seventies soul hit-maker.<\/p>\n<p>The O\u2019Jays\u2019 last non-Christmas album,\u00a0<em>Imagination<\/em>, came out in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ojays-the-last-word-final-album-i-got-you-791191\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The O\u2019Jays rekindle the spirit \u2014 and the sumptuous sound \u2014 of Philadelphia soul in the Seventies on new single \u201cI Got You.\u201d The song will appear on\u00a0The Last Word, which the group says will be their final LP. \u201cI Got You\u201d offers a message of reassurance in a time of political tumult: \u201cEven if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 19:24:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}