Keep Reachin Up

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Keep Reachin' Up
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Studio album by
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators
Released2005
Recorded2003–2005
Genre Soul, funk
Length39:40
Label Timmion Records
Producer Didier Selin
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club (B) [3]
Boston Herald (favorable) [4]
Les Inrocks (favorable) [5]
Kevchino (9/10) [6]
Pitchfork Media (7.6/10) [7]
PopMatters (6/10) [8]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
XLR8R (10/10) [10]

Keep Reachin Up' is a studio album by soul recording collaboration Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators, released on Timmion Records in 2005. The music is composed and performed by Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators and the record is produced by Didier Selin. Timmion Records is located in Helsinki, Finland.

Contents

The title track was chosen as one of many songs on US President Barack Obama's re–election Spotify playlist in February 2012. [11]

Track listing

  1. "Feeling Free" – 3:37
  2. "If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is)" – 3:28
  3. "Keep Reachin' Up" – 3:24
  4. "Blues Downtown" – 5:13
  5. "My Four Leaf Clover" – 2:53
  6. "A Perfect Kind of Love" – 4:01
  7. "Invisible Man" – 2:59
  8. "Holdin' on" – 3:37
  9. "No One's Gonna Love You" – 6:06
  10. "Soul Investigators Theme (Instrumental)" – 2:42
  11. "Outro" (bonus track) – 1:40

Personnel

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