The Sound Of Sunshine, the inspired and inspiring new album by Michael Franti And Spearhead, is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners a sense of hope during rough and rainy times for so many in our world.
In the mid-'90s, Franti first formed Spearhead, and increasingly in recent years, he's found his own voice musically and his own organic brand of popular success. Franti and Spearhead's last album, 2008's All Rebel Rockers, recorded in Jamaica with legendary producers and players Sly & Robbie, became the biggest hit of Franti's career, hitting the Top 40 on the Billboard Top 200, and yielded his biggest hit, the Top 20 'Say Hey (I Love You).'