Traces of Dylan lead to The Roots New album "Undun"

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
-Robert Frost

To experience or form a feeling, to conceive a great love for music is nothing short nor shy of The Legendary Roots Crew sound. The tones and lyrics from their latest release "Undun" delivers chronicles of Redford Stevens, a hustler who meets an early demise.

Jay-z sat and watched American Gangster,and delivered an album named after it thus we have a concept album. The Roots have a name from Sufjan Stevens song "Redford", who is also on the ablum, and a character from The Who's song "undun" and create Redford Stevens from Philly. Many say this is the band's first concept album, but after the city of brotherly love "won" the murder per capita crown back in 2006, and they released Game Theory it's so hard to tell.

Taking a step back into time, the core of the album tells the tale of a person who found a mountain that was too high, who wanted the truth but received nothing but lies. The Who's song "undun" sings of a girl at a party who overdosed on acid, but the Who's inspiration for that song came from Bob Dylan's "Ballad in Plain D", the perfect song for love and heartbreak. Redford Stevens is Ballad in Plain D, as Dylan said "noticing not that I'd already slipped to a sin of false security", this is a short lived high life of a hustler.

Featured on the album is Phonte(please keep him in your future music), strong verses from Big K.R.I.T, Dice Raw, and soul brother Bilal make this album a must have for the winter cold and beyond. What is so beautiful is the music design provided on the last four tracks...thank you Roots for another collectors item.