Liquid Spirit is Porter's debut for Blue Note, and its title track is the kind of gospelly, handclapping swinger the singer excels on, while Lonesome Lover is a coolly smouldering mid-tempo feature that could have graced a Blue Note set back in the 1960s.

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Marking the 10th anniversary of the album, Blue Note presents a special vinyl edition bringing together the original album on 2LP and a disc of bonus tracks and remixes, with 5 tracks available on vinyl for the first time. The lyrics are heart-on-sleeve, and occasionally odd, but Porter's rich baritone oozes confidence and brings each syllable life". Instantly recognisable thanks to his trademark Kangol flat cap Gregory has sent critics scurrying for superlatives with many seeing him as heir apparent to a rich tradition of soul greats including Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway and even Nat King Cole. The intriguing “Bling Bling” is a scorcher with its scat break and high-energy arrangement and Gregory’s take on Nat Adderley’s “Work Song” brings the house down. Perhaps the most personal number is “Musical Genocide”, where Porter laments “the death of blues, of soul”.

Album review: Gregory Porter – Liquid Spirit – Special Edition Porter's magnificent vocals overflow with soul Gregory Porter ― Liquid Spirit". Platinum in the UK and Germany, gold in France, the Netherlands and Austria, the album has sold over a million copies worldwide. The Independent's Phil Johnson noted "The soulful vocalist follows his two excellent indie albums with a major-label debut that contains few surprises yet deepens the story so far". But now that he is recording for the art form's marquis label, Porter has the chance to change the art, to enrich the audience, to sing from a higher mountaintop.Porter’s singing is superb on the ballads “When Love Was King” and “Wolfcry”, and his way with an old and prescient soul-jazz hit like “The ‘In’ Crowd” (made famous by Ramsey Lewis) is irresistible. The acclaimed blues, soul and jazzman Gregory Porter is a Grammy Award-winning vocalist who came into our fold with Liquid Spirit, released in 2013 on the prestigious Blue Note label. Porter sounds great, engages with audiences, and sings songs you can go away humming - and he's sentimental, which puts off hardcore jazzers but hooks a big slice of everybody else. The international success of Liquid Spirit has made Porter an in-demand act globally but when he isn’t spreading the word he’s happy to get home to his Russian wife and young son in Brooklyn.