• Track: Satisfy Me
• Artist: Anderson East
• Album: Delilah
• Year: 2015

Lyrics:

I sipped the finest brandy
It’s not as sweet as perfume
I kissed the softest lips
But even they wouldn’t do
I drove the Autobahn, in a Coupe de Ville
Climbed Kilimanjaro and it was just a hill

Now it’s gonna take more, more, more
To satisfy me
To satisfy me

Now, listen here baby
You’re just as fine as they come
But you’re a selfish little lover
A hot and cold hit and run

Oh, got a Ph.D. in TLC
And there’s so many fish in the sea
And it’s gonna take more, more, more
To satisfy me
Oh, to satisfy me
Satisfy me

And it’s gonna take more, more, more
Gonna take more, more, more
It’s gonna take more
Goin’ take more
Goin’ take more
To satisfy me
Oh, to satisfy me
Satisfy me
Oh, to satisfy me
Oh, satisfy

Every once in a while, a genre-busting artist comes along who defies classification. If you take the time to read reviews of Anderson East’s Delilah, you see listeners try to pigeonhole him as soul, R&B, blues, country, singer/songwriter (whatever that is), and pop. Truth is, all those descriptors are accurate and inaccurate when it comes to East’s Delilah. This amazing record (which sounds like something Stax Records might have released in the 1960s) opens with a delicious homage to doo-wop, switches to blue-eyed soul on Satisfy Me, then continues a genre-defying, 10-track trek through musical brilliance. The one constant is East’s raspy voice that sounds much older than his 30 years. 

East hails from Athens, Alabama, and dropped his first record, Closing Credits for a Fire, under the name, Mike Anderson. In 2012, he changed his stage name to Anderson East with the release of his self-produced (and seemingly impossible to find) Flowers of the Broken Hearted. In 2015, East dropped Delilah, and in January 2018, Encore is expected to be released—and will find its way into my collection rather immediately.

Delilah is a perfect record for a quiet evening at home by the fire while you fiddle with your new Christmas toys. You won’t find many records like this one. The staff here at Dances with Bass industries have their groove on this holiday season, and we hope you will, too.

Video:

Here is East performing Satisfy Me:

Following is East’s video for Devil in Me:

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