24-CARAT BLACK – GONE: THE PROMISES OF YESTERDAY

Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday is by no means a sequel to Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth – missing are the poignant and bleak sermons on the pain of inner-city existence, replaced by dusky, sensuous re-workings of tainted love songs Warren had written as far back as 1965, during his time as a songwriter at Shrine and Motown. Still, his unfinished self-reinvention, even heard through the prism of these skeletal remnants, delivers on a remarkable purity of vision: one man’s corner of black culture, 24 carats pure and mishandled perhaps until now, finally a bit less misunderstood.

• 1.1
  THE BEST OF GOOD LOVE GONE
• 1.2
  I WANT TO MAKE UP
• 1.3
  I DON’T LOVE YOU
• 1.4
  I’LL NEVER LET YOU GO
• 1.5
  GONE THE PROMISES OF YESTERDAY
• 1.6
  I BEGIN TO WEEP