Lionel Richie : Just Go
Singer, songwriter, worldwide tour headliner, producer, Oscar recipient and five-time Grammy award-winning Island recording artist Lionel Richie gets into a new groove on Just Go, his first new studio album in more than two years, arriving in stores on May 19th, 2009. Just Go features some of today's biggest writers and producers, including Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Stargate and Akon, with Lionel sharing writer credits with Terius "The-Dream" Nash, Ne-Yo, Akon, Johnta Austin, and Taj Jackson. Lead single "Good Morning," produced by The Movement, blasts out to Urban AC radio today. Just Go is Lionel Richie's long-awaited follow-up to the RIAA gold Grammy-nominated Coming Home (September 2006), his previous studio album. The latter made chart history as the first top 10 album debut of his 26-year solo career, and spun off the #1 Urban AC chart hit "I Call It Love." The album's obligatory party song "Nothing Left to Give" makes its 1983 forebear "All Night Long" sound like Sly and the Family Stone by comparison - while elsewhere, the smooth-voiced Lionel Richi sounds a little like a weedy ghost of his former self, lost amid a murk of biscuit-brittle R&B beats and hateful synthesizers.His new offering works to a certaing degree, both hit single "Just Go" and "Nothing Left To Give" giving a sense of a pleasant listen. Songs such as "Forever" also have a little urgent edge without breaking Lionel's trademark mould.
The track "Face in The Crowd" is a pretty, sugary mainstream pop ballad, where Richie duets nicely with Dutch songstress Trijntje Oosterhuis, better known as Traincha. Lionel Richie is a pop icon who has sold more than 100 million records worldwide in his career, and has the honor of owning an Oscar and Golden Globe Award (both for "Say You, Say Me," from White Knights) and a total of five Grammys (collectively for "Truly," Can't Slow Down, and "We Are The World"). Richie has the distinction of being the only songwriter in the modern pop era to write #1 song hits over the course of nine consecutive years: 1978 ("Three Times a Lady" with the Commodores), 1979 ("Still" with the Commodores), 1980 ("Lady" for Kenny Rogers), 1981 ("Endless Love" duet with Diana Ross), 1982 ("Truly"), 1983 ("All Night Long"), 1984 ("Hello"), 1985 ("We Are the World" with Michael Jackson for USA For Africa), and 1986 ("Say You, Say Me").
Song List:| 1. | Forever | | | 2. | Just Go featuring Akon | | | 3. | Nothing Left To Give featuring Akon | | | 4. | Forever And A Day | | | 5. | I'm Not Okay | | | 6. | Good Morning | | | 7. | Through My Eyes | | | 8. | I'm In Love | | | 9. | Think Of You | | | 10. | Into You Deep | | | 11. | Pastime | | | 12. | Face In The Crowd Duet with Trijntje Oosterhuis | | | 13. | Somewhere In London | | | 14. | Eternity | |
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