1 	Intro: Real Music 	0:48
2 	Do What U Gotta Do 	3:24
3 	Backup Plan 	3:26
4 	Proud Of Me 	3:54
5 	First Time 	3:30
6 	Guilty 	5:01
7 	Interlude    (Feat. [Spoken Word] – Malcolm Jamal-Warner)	1:07
8 	Alright 	3:52
9 	Livin' It Up 	3:39
10 	Rich Girl 	3:38
11 	Right In Front Of Me 	3:03
12 	I Can't Take It 	3:21
13 	Push 'N' Pull 	3:25
14 	U Lit My Fire 	4:11
15 	Sisters 	4:14

Angie Stone - Vocals, Vocal Arrangement, Vocals (Background) 
Korey Bowie - Arranger, Drum Programming, Guitar, Keyboard Synthesizer, Vocals (Background) 
Ametria Dock - Vocals (Background) 
James Owens - Guitar 
Kameron Jones - Vocals (Background)
Charlene "Tweet" Keys - Vocals 
Demond Mickens - Arranger, Drum Loop, Effects, Fender Rhodes, Guitar (Bass), Keyboard Synthesizer, Piano, Arrangements, Synthesizer, Vocals (Background)
Danetra Moore - Vocals 
Bruce Robinson - Guitar
Reger "Ross" Smith - Bass
Alvin Speights - Bass
Levi B. Stephens - Guitar
Diamond Stone - Vocals
Malcolm Jamal Warner - Bass
Y'anna Crawley - Vocals, Vocals (Background) 

Those who have found something to enjoy in each one of Angie Stone's albums might be confused by the singer's liner notes for Rich Girl, the singer's first album for Saguaro Road. She alludes to having done too much collaborative work in the recent past, declaring "I shaved a lot of my originality off when merging with so many other people." Her outside projects haven't been all that numerous, and she is joined here by around two dozen fellow songwriters and roughly half as many co-producers. On one hand, who's to argue with an artist who says her new work is more herself than the material from her recent past? On the other, this album doesn't offer as many high points as her two previous Stax albums, and it's as scattered quality-wise as it is stylistically diverse. Stone's beaming, easygoing nature and typically excellent vocals save the majority of the substandard material. Some fans will be dismayed by the shortage of throwbacks to classic soul, but "U Lit My Fire" is a knockout, one that begins with a sly Taana Gardner fake-out before settling into one of her most seductive numbers. If Stone really wanted to get back to basics, she could have made a whole album with the terminally undervalued Mike City. His smacking but smoothened grooves are a great fit, heard on the synthesizer-laced disco funk of "Backup Plan" and the stout hip-hop bounce of "Right in Front of Me" (the latter something like Donell Jones' "Spend the Night" on weight gainer). ---Andy Kellman, AllMusic Review

"Rich Girl" oferuje nam wyważony mix szybszych, zahaczających o funk numerów z klasycznymi neo-soulowymi balladami. SOUL w pełnym tego słowa znaczeniu, przywołujący na myśl złote lata 70. Nie znajdziemy tu zaskakujących eksperymentów, celujących w zdobycie kapryśnej, mainstreamowej publiki, brak też wpływów hip-hopu w postaci samplowanych bitów i gościnnych zwrotek. Co ciekawe, jedynym wymienionym na trackliście gościem jest Malcolm-Jamal Warner – tak, tak, dobrze kojarzycie – słynny Theo Huxtable z "The Cosby Show". Obdarzony niskim głosem Malcolm wykonuje napisany przez siebie, minutowy spoken word, stanowiący klimatyczny przerywnik między utworami.

Pełno natomiast na "Rich Girl" żywych instrumentów: płynących basów, subtelnych klawiszy i gitar oraz okazjonalnych, dopełniających i odświeżających brzmienie syntezatorów. Do tego dochodzą klasyczne, niewybijające się na pierwszy plan a nadające odpowiedni vibe bębny i hand-clapy. To płyta świetnie, profesjonalnie wyprodukowana, zaaranżowana i zmiksowana – ta muzyka żyje, rozbrzmiewa, a wspierana przez chórki różnych mniej lub bardziej (pamiętacie Tweet?) znanych wokalistek Angie czuje się tu jak przysłowiowa "ryba w wodzie". Jeśli szukacie dojrzałego, eleganckiego soulu, który wywoła uśmiech na waszych twarzach oraz umili wam odpoczynek po ciężkim dniu, bądź też da porządny zastrzyk pozytywnej energii, trafiliście idealnie. Dobra robota, Pani Stone! --- Marcin Natali, popkiller.pl

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01 – Dollar Bill 03:15
02 – Begin Again 04:03
03 – Clothes Don't Make A Man 02:37
04 – Magnet 04:07
05 – Dream 03:29
06 – 2 Bad Habits 03:57
07 – Quits 03:12
08 – Think It Over 04:22
09 – Forget About Me 03:42
10 – Didn't Break Me 03:51

Angie Stone left the reality series R&B Divas after the revelation that her then boyfriend/manager was having an affair with one of the show's crew members, and an allegedly violent altercation with her daughter made headlines and had her contemplating leaving music altogether, but if there's one thing to know about her, besides that she's one of the finest and most revered voices in modern soul, it's that Angie Stone is a survivor.

Resiliency has played a key theme in her best work, and in the nearly 40 years that she's been in the game (as a member of pioneering female hip-hop trio the Sequence, as vocalist for Vertical Hold and on solo masterpieces Black Diamond and Mahogany Soul) Stone's always bounced back with consistently compelling material. More concise and focused then 2012's Rich Girl, Stone's seventh effort (and debut for Shanachie), Dream, touches on themes of personal and romantic renewal as well as tackling the rocky terrain of failed relationships. These certainly aren't new themes for Stone, yet with her robust alto and reverence to the soul music tradition as a sonic guide, they never seem redundant over the set's ten cuts.

Crisp and spunky opener "Dollar Bill" declares Stone's return with an irresistible groove reminiscent of Slave's "Watching You"; a duet with Dave Hollister on "Begin Again" is a heartfelt plea for reconciliation and a contender for duet of the year; the heart-rending "Magnet" has Stone lamenting her attraction to the wrong kind of partner, which is further examined on the confessional "2 Bad Habits." But again, this is Angie Stone, so when the album concludes with its best track, the neo-Motown bounce of the self-explanatory kiss off "Didn't Break Me," we know that she has truly overcome. Dream is another solid and empowering effort for Angie Stone. ---Shanachie, exclaim.ca

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