Here we are dealing with someone who has made a name as a classic soul singer since the early 60s. For this type of singer really until the mid-70s was still all right. Only a short time later the emerging disco wave has brought some of them to stumble. What should you do - remain in the old, as not quite up to date maligned rail? Or the new trends subordinate to so hopefully remain commercially successful? Perhaps a middle ground?
In the 1978 released album LET ME LIVE IN YOUR LIFE, it would in any case can hardly walk better, much was ever said. Largely kept traditional (but without ever sounding stale!), Seems to want to lead a bandwidth of the varied arrangements again all this in mind, which sometimes something has been lost unfortunately in the course of Disco. Expansive produced Romantic Soul as an alternative to the sometimes overly plates disco excesses! Nice!
For the majority of the songs features the Produzenteam to Lamont Dozier, consisting of Paul Riser (strings and winds) and McKinley Jackson (rhythm), responsible. The instruments are heard among other rounder like Lee Ritenour (guitar). Of not less than a real Soul Symphony you have in tracks like "Sweet Rhapsody" and "Fifty Years" talk (both in 1975 on the album produced also by Dozier CALIFORNIA SUNSET already interpreted by the original). True, there are annoyances not recorded, only "Dark Storm On The Horizon" is a little repetitive and therefore "Spoiled" already indicated by its synth strings (you please eighth time on the difference in comparison to the real strings!) The direction of , in which it should go increasingly in the 80s.
So all in all a round thing for all those who are in this warm, dense and multi-layered soundscapes that make the soul music of the 70's so unique and memorable.
