Ali Ollie Woodson, photo courtesy of Junco
Fujita.
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December 2001
ALI OLLIE WOODSON
RIGHT HERE ALL ALONG Expansion, 2001
1) Turn Out The Stars 2) Angel 3)
Drama In The Bedroom 4) Power Of A Woman 5)
Whatever It Takes 6) Will You Still Love Me
Tomorrow 7) Deeper Love 8) Get Next To You 9)
Love's Not All 10) Believe That 11) Never Give Up
12) Down The Line 13) Love Is Slipping Away 14)
Right Here All Along
Produced by Preston Glass, Sanchez Harley, Al Mc
Kay, Wyman Brown, Keith Rice, Philip French and
Tim Carmon
The former Temptations lead
singer Ali Ollie Woodson is one
of the top-notch soul vocalists that I would
quite happily listen to singing his way through a
telephone directory.
On this album one does not even have to do that,
as most of the material is more than
satisfactory, with songs like the quite pretty
slow ballad opener Turn Out The Stars or
the similar Right Here All Along and
Down The Line. The gritty midtempo Believe
That also has its moments.
However, were I to build a personal Top 5 from
this album it would consist of songs like the
bright midtempo Power Of A Woman, the
subtle, sensuous and slightly Oriental-sounding
slow groove ballad Deeper Love and the
somewhat similar Get Next To You plus
the brisk and dynamic midtempo jogger Love's
Not All.
And the song that would top my chart would
definitely be the classic, bittersweet midtempo
soul melody Drama In The Bedroom, which
is given a great vocal interpretation by the the
extremely soulful Mr. Woodson. (8 1/2)
-PKi
