He can do other things!

With new recordings great hits a split of Fanlagers is almost inevitable. For that reason alone deserves Lionel Richie for "Tuskegee" ever respect. By changing the classic for the remake hardly or gently, are some (like me) with such an album hardly happy because they lack the courage to change, because then you could have stayed with the original.
If you break the structure of the songs and invent the songs almost completely new, are those (like me) While listening curious to see how you "Hello" also completely else can implement, for example, but then the horror will be that large, as their favorite songs spoiled and ruined feel because they hardly even recognize.

Lionel Richie goes country. The sound in the announcement before to change because his name falls you have perhaps a thousand associations, but Country falls hardly less. But a "boom chaka boom" á la Johnny Cash on "Say you, say me" to tailor or "Just for you" seemed to me at all admiration for Cash, now the best will not imagine. Wrapped the CD so disappears into the player.

From the first song is clear, Lionel Richie succeeded with "Tuskegee" an artifice. He has 14 of his classics refined without completely revamp, she subtly enriched by country bonds, without introducing a typical country album (which would probably really do not fit to him and his voice color), has the songs in where the hands of brilliant musicians who grounded the organic sound of acoustic instruments and real his songs and enhance pleasant. The album was almost completely dispensed with the usual ingredients such as computer-beats and synth surfaces. Many Lionel Richie hit was in its original version by the master's tendency to sound almost perfection for designer product -. All well and aesthetically flawless, but this often smooth and somewhat vague Now they sound genuine, original, genuine, handmade flat. I mean (yet) better.

Without the songs to rob their recognition, but each Tuskegee version differs significantly from the original. The duet partner you do the rest. The guest list ranges from the 79-year olds Country veteran Willie Nelson to the 21 year old Pixie Lott, about legends like Kenny Rogers and superstars as Shania Twain.
With none of the duets sounds forced, along the lines of, whether it fits, the two big names have to necessarily do what times together, a blemish adheres to many Superstar Duets albums. The voices in harmony and give the songs yet another facet.

"Tuskegee" has not become a country album in the strict sense, but clearly more than the average Best of production, a very different album Lionel Richie. It puts the big hits in just an untypical for Lionel Richie context and lets you breathe a little country air. Refreshing!