2xLP 140g, double gatefold sleeve - SDS 1510 LP 

• The Complete Album on Vinyl for the First Time Ever - restored to include the defining Intro, Interlude and Outro!
• First time reissue since 2013 - that version sells for north of $150.00 - original release in 2001 was a non-cover dj copy
• Vinyl Mastering by Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering (Beyonce, Olivia Rodrigo, Linkin Park, Green Day) from 44.1/16 files
• Pressed on 140g Neotech Vinyl at Record Technology, Inc
• Plating by Record Technology, Inc
• Print and Paper by Dorado Music Packaging
• Nominated for 7 Grammy Awards after release in 2002 including Album of the Year and Best R&B Album
• Considered one of the greatest Soul, Neo-Soul, R&B and Singer-Songwriter albums of all time
• Includes the quintessential songs ‘Video’, ‘Brown Skin’, ‘Ready For Love’, and ‘Back To the Middle'
  
• Original Release Date: March 27, 2001

‘ACOUSTIC SOUL’ delivers itself like a prayer. Lyrically, it makes a religion of blackness, a shrine to black femininity - NME circa 2001

‘ACOUSTIC SOUL’ is the debut album by india.arie, originally on Motown. Upon release the album had a Billboard Top 200 debut at number ten. Within’ it’s first year the album sold 5 million copies Worldwide and has gone on to sell miilions and millions more. 

Produced by india arie, Mark Batson, Blue Miller, Carlos "6 july” Briady, and Bob Power it was mostly recorded at Electric Ladyland Studios. 

When india name checks artists no longer with us that she claims as influences, Ma Rainey, Miles Davis, Karen Carpenter, Charley Patton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Donny Hathaway, Minnie Riperton and others - you can’t help but to embrace this spiritual, coming of age masterpiece.