So Cool (Take 6 album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = So Cool

| type = Studio album

| artist = Take 6

| cover = So Cool (album).jpg

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| released = October 27, 1998

| recorded =

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| genre = Gospel

| length =

| label = Reprise

| producer = Jim Ed Norman

| prev_title = Brothers

| prev_year = 1996

| next_title = Greatest Hits

| next_year = 1999

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{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r379886}}

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So Cool is a gospel music album by the American contemporary gospel music group Take 6, released on October 27, 1998, on Reprise Records.

It peaked at #24 on the Billboard charts.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/take-6/chart-history/ILS/song/181340|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714214705/https://www.billboard.com/music/take-6/chart-history/ILS/song/181340|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 14, 2020|title=Take 6|magazine=Billboard}} It was nominated for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/take-6|title=Take 6|date=May 19, 2020|website=GRAMMY.com}}

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune praised the album, writing: "So Cool may be intimate and celebratory, but it isn't soft; the album comes across as fun, accomplished and smooth, without drifting into the emotionally vacant world of smooth jazz."{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-11-15-9811150164-story.html|title=Take 6So Cool (Reprise)Returning to its a...|first=Lou|last=Carlozo|website=chicagotribune.com|date=15 November 1998 }}

Track listing

  1. "Intro (A Cappella Is Cool)"
  2. "So Cool"
  3. "Sonshine"
  4. "If You Only Knew"
  5. "Wings of Your Prayer"
  6. "Fly Away"
  7. "You'll Be Waiting for Me"
  8. "Nothin' but Love"
  9. "Evermore"
  10. "Soundcheck # 694 (London)"
  11. "Everybody Ought to Know"
  12. "A'-Ca-Lud" *
  13. "Love and Harmony"
  14. "A Few More Miles"

* an a cappella bridge two articles of funk

References