Meshell Ndegeocello to sing background and play bass on the tortured love song, "Sideways," and Carlos Santana, who's fiery guitar solo blesses "Son's Gonna Rise." With
The Clarence Greenwood Recordings, Citizen Cope emerges as a modern day bluesman who paints a plaintive portrait of the human condition.
One-man-band Greenwood does an "Eminem," titling a record after his given name. By stripping the sound of his well-produced debut down to the bone, Greenwood dials into a new urgency on cuts "A Bullet and a Target" and "Penitentiary." What hasn't changed is the man's musical gumbo of rap, folk, rock and 1970s soul.