1) Do You Really Want to Know (What Makes Me Fall
in Love) 2) If I Were Your Woman II 3) I Said You
Lied 4) Grandma's Hands 5) Love Hurts 6) I Wanna
be Loved (featuring Jamie Foxx) 7) Greatest Love
of All 8) Better Love Next Time 9) Please Help Me
I'm Falling (In Love with You) 10) Something Blue
11) Just Take Me 12) Rose Bouguet 13) That's Why
They Call It Love
Produced by Gladys Knight, Randy Jackson, Tiger,
Gary Brown, James "D.C." Wilson,
Bradley Spalter, Jamey Jaz, Jon John, Shep
Crawford, Keith Thomas, Tom Dowd Gladys is back and definitely on
form with this fine collection of mid-tempo but
predominately slow, mellow grooves which for
these ears is a pure delight. It's the sort of
album that makes you feel good and relaxed if you
feel the stresses of the day getting you down!
The album starts in good form with the cracking
Do You Really Want To Know (What Makes Me Fall In
Love) which is a fine soul swayer that gets
better and better.
The tempo rises a little with one of this album's
highlights namely If I Were Your Woman II,
the sort of track that demands that you
"groove" a little to it, or at the very
least, tap those feet.
The quality continues on through the next two
tracks but I have to mention the ballad Love
Hurts which I just adore - gets better with
every play.
So far, this year has yielded a fair number of
albums with the consistency factor let's just say
that albums such as this, which are pretty much
top notch from start to finish, are fairly rare
these days but I personally can't fault any of
the tracks contained on the CD. Her voice is the
bee's knees. I'm not saying that this album will
appeal to everybody, not everyone goes for the
listening type of album which, this most
definitely is, but if it's the SOUL that floats
your boat, then this will be on your CD shelf for
sure.
The review by Barry Towler exclusively
for RECORD CORNER, which is one of the
leading soul shops in the world. The review is
not featured in our printed issue.
