★★★★★
Incredible amounts of advance buzz as well as appearances on several major television shows greeted the major label debut of singer/songwriter Raul Midon in 2005. His concerts were well known by that time and led Blue Note Records, still flush from its success with Norah Jones, to sign Midon and to pair him with legendary producer Arif Mardin for his debut...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
We should all be so lucky as to have Raul Midon's "State of Mind." The New Mexico-born singer/songwriter's debut on EMI's Manhattan Records is a sunny, breezy and unabashedly buoyant work that is chock full of warm melodies and catchy hooks. Midon straddles a variety of styles, from Top 40 pop and '70s-era folk rock to Stevie Wonder-inspired R&B; and Latin jazz, yet the music never feels overly busy or cluttered...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Raul Midon gathered a sizeable adult audience for his mildly eclectic acoustic offerings on his excellent debut album, State of Mind, but also risked facile (and unfair) categorization as another Norah Jones chaser onto the adult contemporary charts. Fortunately, he has stretched out both stylistically and lyrically on his more upbeat, accessible sophomore disc, A World Within A World...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Featured in August 2005, on National Public Radio, Raul Midon is now on his way to realizing his aspirations. Composer, lyricist, guitarist and drummer, Midon has been involved in music since childhood. Setting the tone for this CD, "State of Mind" is the title track showcasing Midon's unique voice with highs and lows, as he sings, ' I want to be rich?all a state of mind', with Stevie Wonder playing harmonica, before shifting to the world of love in his next ballad, "If You're Gonna Leave...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Thank God for Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and Jose Feliciano, for without their collective spirit, we would not be blessed with the superlative talent of Raul Midon and his debut recording State Of Mind. Raul Midon is at the top of my list for best male vocalist of the year in any contemporary style. Midon also plays guitar, he composes catchy tunes, he writes wonderful lyrics and he has developed an interesting method of scatting that is indicated in the liner notes as mouth trumpet...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
An exciting new release from soul master Raul Midon was spinning on my CD player all week in advance of the official release date scheduled for September 25, 2007, A World Within A World is a very special treat, packed full of well produced, well written, easy to take tunes put across in a rhythm & blues, folk groove with lots of Latin soul. The recording features Mr...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
This album is, in a word, rejuvenating, like a breath of fresh spring air. It takes interesting turns and twists throughout and truly strikes a defiant pose when confronted with the possibility of being categorized or pigeonholed. Indeed, it's jazz. It's pop/jazz, R&B/jazz, blues/jazz, poetic/jazz, a cappella jazz...The opening track, "Pick Somebody Up," is a rather funky pop-flavored, foot-tapping, head-bopping infectious little diity just right in its place as a tone-setting opener...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
New Mexico-born, New York-based Raul Midon is one of those artists whose style encompasses many different genres to make a fairly unique sound. The singer-songwriter/guitarist takes his vocal cues from R&B legends like Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, and the easiest classification for him would be in the "neo-soul" category...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-22
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