Thelma Houston - A Woman's Touch (2007)
Thelma Houston - A Woman's Touch (2007)
R&B, Soul/Funk, Quiet Storm, Urban | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 51:35 Min | 437,08 Mb
Label: Shout! Factory (USA) | Cat.# 826663-10567 | Released: 2007-08-14
R&B, Soul/Funk, Quiet Storm, Urban | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 51:35 Min | 437,08 Mb
Label: Shout! Factory (USA) | Cat.# 826663-10567 | Released: 2007-08-14
Thelma Houston - A Woman's Touch (2007)
"A Woman's Touch" is the seventeenth studio album by singer and songwriter, Thelma Houston. "A Woman's Touch" is an album that consists of her renditions of vintage R&B and Pop songs by male singers such as Luther Vandross, Glen Campbell, Marvin Gaye and Sting. The lead single from the album is "Brand New Day."
~Wikipedia
For her first new album in 17 years, Motown and disco veteran Thelma Houston doesn't exactly dive into the deep water, but instead sort of gets her feet wet by putting her touch on a series of soul and pop covers from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s originally done by male singers Houston has long admired, giving these classic songs, as the album's title states, a woman's touch. The end result is sort of a mixed bag, but it is good to have this fine singer back in the game. A Woman's Touch has a rather smoothed-out, thin sound, and producer Jeff Palo obviously had some budget concerns to deal with, which is probably why there are programmed horns here rather than the real deal, but Houston's voice is what truly matters, and thankfully she is in fine form, bringing a blues approach and a gospel fire to the table. She shines on a pair of Marvin Gaye tunes, the powerful "Distant Lover" and a slowed-down, completely unique version of "Ain't That Peculiar" that recasts the song with a tone of weary resignation into a whole new realm. Houston also sticks her old disco shoes back on for driving renditions of Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" and the Luther Vandross-penned "Never Too Much," and tackles pop fare like Jimmy Webb's (who produced her debut album back in 1969) "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and Sting's "Brand New Day" with pleasing if not exactly groundbreaking results. In the end, A Woman's Touch feels a bit like a test run for Houston, a way of easing back into things, and for that, it's a fine outing. Aside from her magnificent version of "Ain't That Peculiar," though, most of what's here is treading water, and Houston is too good a singer to do that for very long.
~Review by Steve Leggett
Thelma Houston - A Woman's Touch (2007)
Thelma Houston - A Woman's Touch (2007)
Thelma Houston - A Woman's Touch (2007)
Release of this album/CD: 2007, August, 14 [CD Shout! Factory (USA), Cat.# 826663-10567 / UPC: T4988029011244]
℗© 2007 Thelma Houston under exclusive license to Shout! Factory LLC.
Distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment Inc.
Made in U.S.A.
Credits:
Backing Vocals – Denita James, Myrna Smith, Pat Hodges
Bass – John Peña
Design – Emily Johnson
Engineer – Matt Marrin
Executive-Producer – Thelma Houston
Guitar – Jack Wargo
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Thelma Houston
Mastered By – Pat Kraus
Mixed By – Brian Springer
Other [Make-up] – Rudy Calvo
Percussion – Luis Conte
Producer, Arranged By, Mixed By, Programmed By, Keyboards – Peitor Angell
Saxophone – Larry Klimas
Trumpet – Chris Tedesco
Tracklist:
01. "Wake Up Everybody" (04:47)
(Victor Carstarphen, Gene McFadden)
02."Never Too Much" (05:39)
(Luther Vandross)
03."Brand New Day" (05:43)
(Sting)
04."Ain't That Peculiar" (04:09)
(Smokey Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, Marvin Tarplin, Robert Rogers)
05."By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (07:01)
(Jimmy Webb)
06."Distant Lover" (04:36)
(Marvin Gaye, Gwen Fuqua, Sandra Greene)
07."Love and Happiness" (04:39)
(Mabon "Teenie" Hodges)
08."Dance (Disco Heat) / You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" (05:37)
(James Wirrick, Eric Robinson)
09."That's the Way of the World" (05:51)
(Maurice White, Charles Stepney, Verdine White)
10."Please Send Me Someone to Love" (03:32)
(Percy Mayfield)
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Channels: 2
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Bitrate: 979 kbps
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Analyzed: Thelma Houston / A Woman's Touch
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