''Music Fan First'' is the sixth studio album from the soul singer

Eric Roberson Eric Roberson (born September 27, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, former rapper and music producer. He is sometimes referred to simply as Erro, the name which he later used as part of his label Blue Erro Soul. His first single, "Represen ...

. It was released on August 25, 2009 on his longtime independent label Blue Erro Soul and on August 24, 2009 in the UK on

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. It features his biggest radio single to date, the duet with Lalah Hathaway "Dealing". The music video was directed by the team Christopher Adams & Hana "Blaq" McDowell, who also directed the video for the song "Still". ''Music Fan First'' would be his final album recorded and released independently, until he signed with Purpose Records/

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to release his seventh album ''Mister Nice Guy''. ''Music Fan First'' also contains the song "Celebrate" which was dedicated to the passing of singer

Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over a ...

. The album was released four days from what would have been his 51st birthday.

Track listing

*All songs written by Eric Roberson and Brett Baker, except as indicated. # The Newness # The Hunger (featuring W. Ellington Felton) (Eric Roberson, W. Ellington Felton, Brett Baker) # A Tale Of Two (featuring Ben O'Neill and Michelle Thompson) (Eric Roberson, Brett Baker,

Minnie Riperton Minnie Julia Riperton Rudolph (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979) was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You" and her four octave D3 to F7 coloratura soprano range. She is also widely known for her use o ...

Richard Rudolph Richard James Rudolph (born October 27, 1946) is an American songwriter, musician, music publisher, and producer. Life and career Richard Rudolph is the son of Muriel Eileen (Neufeld) and Sidney J. Rudolph. His grandfather, Julius Abraham Rud ...

Leon Ware Leon Ware (February 16, 1940 – February 23, 2017) was an American songwriter, producer, composer, and singer. Besides a solo career as a performer, Ware was best known for producing hits for other artists including Michael Jackson, Quincy ...

) # Borrow You # Dealing (featuring

Lalah Hathaway Eulaulah Donyll "Lalah" Hathaway (born December 16, 1968) is an American singer. In 1990 Hathaway released her first album titled '' Lalah Hathaway''. After releasing another album, titled ''A Moment'' (1994), it debuted at number 34 on the T ...

) (Eric Roberson, Lee Hutson, Jr.) # Still # How Could She Do It # Further (featuring T3 of Slum Village) (Eric Roberson, R.L. Altman, Ralph Rice II, Craig Lane) # The Power That Kisses Hold # Howard Girls (featuring Geno Young, Brandon Hines and Aaron Abernathy) (Eric Roberson, Curt Chambers, Dana Sorey) # Weekend Getaway (Eric Roberson, A. Jermaine Mobley) # She (Eric Roberson,

Osunlade Osunlade (; born March 13, 1969) is an American-born musician and music producer. Biography Osunlade was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He composed music for ''Sesame Street'' during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Afterward, he moved t ...

) # Wanna Believe It Again (featuring

Wayna Wayna (real name Woyneab Miraf Wondwossen) is an R&B/soul singer and songwriter who was born in Ethiopia and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She worked as a writer for the Clinton White House before releasing three solo albums, garnerin ...

) (Eric Roberson, Dana Sorey) # Bad for Me (Eric Roberson, Colin Emmanuel, Allan Simpson) # Breakitdown (Eric Roberson, A. Jermaine Mobley) # Pave a New Road (Eric Roberson, Curt Chambers, Brett Baker) # Celebrate

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(featuring

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)

Personnel

Drum programming Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These m ...

: Brett Baker, Colin Emmanuel, A. Jermaine Mobley, Young RJ, Eric Roberson, Osunlade, JR Hutson * Live Drums: Brett Baker *

Keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

: Brett Baker, Colin Emmanuel, A. Jermaine Mobley, Young RJ, Dana Sorey, Osunlade, JR Hutson, Craig Lane *

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

: Donna Sorey *

Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

: Ben O'Neil, Curt Chambers, Allan Simpson, A. Jermaine Mobley *

Bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gu ...

: Wayne Moore, Jay Bratten *

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs ...

: Dana Sorey *

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

: Curt Chambers, JR Hutson *

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

: Matt Cappy *

Saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

: Korey Riker *

Trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrat ...

: Aaron Goodie *

Executive producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights ...

: Eric Roberson, James Roberson, Charlotte Roberson *

Photography Photography is the visual art, art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It i ...

: D. Brown * Art Direction and design: Concep

Samples

* "A Tale Of Two" contains a sample of "

Inside My Love "Inside My Love" is a 1975 single by Minnie Riperton from her album '' Adventures in Paradise''. It was co-written by Riperton, Leon Ware and Richard Rudolph. Critical reception BBC Music wrote "Of Ware’s tracks, the standout is Inside My ...

", as performed by Minnie Riperton.

References

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