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from w b ez ch Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim D. Regattis.

And I'm Greg Kott. Sometimes all it takes for a song to go from good to great is the addition of a guest artist,

whether it's a rapper going in on a verse or a guitarist shredding a solo. We'll share some of our favorite musical cameos.

We'll share some of our favorite musical cameos.

Plus we'll review the new album from R&B artist Raphael Sadiq. That's all coming up on sound opinions.

You are listening to sound opinions.

You are listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to share some of our favorite musical cameos.

Instances where a short appearance by a guest artist elevates a song to a new level.

But first, let's review some new music. But then I broke your heart.

I went too far.

I'm still I can living wrong. The drugs was too strong and then I broke your heart my

regret. I went to far. That is a little bit of so ready from Raphael Sadiq. The first album in eight years, Greg, one of the most important, if under-appreciated

artists in R&B over the last several decades.

First emerged in the mid- 80s as a driving force in the old school soul

R&B band. Tony Tony Tony. A great old school R&B band taking the classic roots of that sound into a new era.

Struck out as a solo artist thereafter probably the most critically acclaimed album the way I see it in 2008 but he's

also always been a songwriter and producer for other greats and this list is just astounding. Stevie Wonder, Joss Stone,

Jay Z, Salange, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige,

Calise and Vogue. My God, he's been everywhere, even a Christmas album for John Legend.

Now, after a very long break, eight years, as I said, he is back with a new solo album.

The album is named Jimmy Lee, after one of Raphael's four siblings who died tragically young, Jimmy Lee Baker overdosed in the 1990s after

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