SHELBY J. FEATURING ANTHONY HAMILTON - NORTH CAROLINA

Shelby J. is an experienced vocalist working with a lot of names in show business...  She sang backup to D'Angelo in his band, The Soultronics.  She's also worked with Santana but is probably most well known for the time she spent in Prince's band, The New Power Generation.  She toured with him during her time as a member and it's from that time with him that this song was written.

She was working on a solo album and Prince contributed to it by working on this track with her.  As a native North Carolinian, the song is basically her impressions and thoughts about growing up in North Carolina.  Because of demand, Shelby produced a limited number of promotional CDs of the single she sold on her website directly to her fans.  The disc contains three tracks.  The first being the full version of 'North Carolina'.  The next 2 are edits of the longer first track.

'North Carolina' by itself is an OK track though hardly Prince's most exciting or interesting.  Shelby has a great voice and she does an excellent job.  The song just isn't a stand out number.  Still, because this is the only physical format the song can be found on, this disc will be worth a lot of money and might very well become one of the most rare Prince items out there.

I'd be interested in hearing more collaboration material Shelby may have done with Prince, but for now, this is the only known collab. that actually exists.  I'm not going to go into this release any further.  My final opinion hasn't changed on subsequent listens of the track so my final words are:  OK SONG BUT A DISC MOSTLY FOR COMPLETISTS.

SHELBY J. FEATURING ANTHONY HAMILTON - NORTH CAROLINA
01. North Carolina (Full Version)
02. North Carolina (The Hot Sauce Edit)
03. North Carolina (The Tripp Edit)