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The two songs that are the best example of that are "Never Never Land" and "It's Real." Anybody who grew up watching Disney movies knows that Never Never Land is that mythical place where Peter Pan lived where kids stay kids forever. I mean, his throaty vocals that are filled with regret for the life he's lived, true wisdom and a hope that he'll find something better mark him as somebody who knows the difference between what a person wants to do and what a person should do.
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Jennings' gravely voice is not the sound getting played on the radio. The songs strive for and achieve street realism not by glamorizing street life or by boasting about women and bling, but by giving a clear eyed view of what's happening on the streets. On his previous two records, the aforementioned Lyfe 268-192 and The Phoenix, Jennings proved adept at combining strong, poetic lyricism with music that is at once classically soulful and right-now contemporary. However, he does not glamorize his time in jail. Jennings has always put those gritty stories out there for the listeners to hear. The one thing that always comes across in Jennings music is that he is a man who looks back on the some of the choices he made and wishes he could change some things. He knows that the quickest way to achieve "street cred" in music today is to play up stories about getting shot or going to jail (and preferably doing both). That's exactly what makes Jennings so refreshing. That first album, Lyfe 268-192, derives its name from Jennings' prison ID number. Jennings, as we know from his first album, did a long prison stint. Other listeners will probably reach for adjectives such as gritty, real, passionate and intimate, and they'd be right.
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I wake up the Friday before the long Memorial Day weekend, trying to get this review done before getting swept up by the weekend activities, and the one word that keeps coming to me is "refreshing." Now, many people who know anything about Jennings and his back-story might blanche at the description of his music as refreshing. I'm casting about trying to find the word that would serve as an apt modifier for Lyfe Change. All of this brings me to the Lyfe Change, the latest work by Chester "Lyfe" Jennings.