Joss Stone: Soul Sessions Vol 2 – review

Stone's sixth album is a counterpart to her first – 2003's multi-platinum debut of 60s and 70s covers on which the then 16-year-old sagely aligned herself with old-timer luminaries such as Betty Wright and Benny Latimore. This time, round Muscle Shoals cred comes from Clayton Ivey and it's the 70s and 80s that have been mined. Less predictable is a bombastic cover of Broken Bells ' leisurely hit The High Road and though her mighty voice is technically irreproachable throughout, every track is attacked with all the timidity of a tsunami – enough to prompt the peevish complaint that force and feeling are not the same thing.