Music Review

"Southern Gul" (1999)

Erykah Badu
Reviewed by Tom Sinclair | Aug 20, 1999
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Lead Performance: Erykah Badu

This spare little ditty may be the most charming evocation of rural simplicity since Leiber and Stoller's ''Down Home Girl.'' Over a percolating groove, Badu offhandedly drops rhymes like ''I'm countrified/Everything I eat is fried.'' The net effect is as irresistible as a mess of ham hocks and collard greens simmering in a cast-iron pot. Well, almost.

Originally posted Aug 20, 1999 Published in issue #499-500 Aug 20, 1999 Order article reprints

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