Track Listing

1. I Love The Lord He Heard My Cry
2. Someday We'll All Be Free
3. Flying Easy
4. Valdez In The Country
5. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
6. Come Little Children
7. Love Love Love
8. Slums
9. Magdelena
10. I Know It's You
11. Lord Help Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75915 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-02
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

AN ABSOLUTE CLASSIC DONNY HATHAWAY R.I.P.
FANTASTIC INCLUDES ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS OF ALL TIME I LOVE YOU MORE THEN YOULL EVER KNOW ORIGINALLY BY BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS FROM THE 60S THERE VERSION IS GOOD BUT DONNYS IS MY FAVOURITE FAB!! THE WHOLE ALBUM FAB BUY IT!!

A major influence
Donny Hathaway was a huge influence on Black Music, if not music in general. He was classically trained, a little unusual for a Soul man, and he had played keyboards for Aretha before Atlantic took a chance on him with his "Everything is Everything" album.

This is his third, and is probably his most varied. There is the protest classic, "Someday We'll All Be Free", which is a hymn to equality and freedom, the mellow "Love Love Love" and the jazzy "Valdez...". Add in a huge ballad in "...More Than You'll Ever Know", gospel in "I Love The Lord.." and .. well I could go on, but you should hear for yourself.

Donny Hathaway is not the most accessible artist, perhaps why he never quite made the jump to superstardom, but his influence is clear from this and the other great albums he made.

Many of the artists making R & B music today would count DH as a major influence, so if your tastes run in this direction and you've never tried a Donny album, buy this (or any of his solo albums) and then branch out into any of the great 70's Soul artists - you won't regret it.

An absolute classic
Donny Hathaway did a lot in the few short years that he had with us and this is perhaps his best album, with the exception of the live album. When people speak about the current crop of nu-soul Male artists such as Frank McComb, Donnie and even to a lesser extent Dwele then you can uderstand where the real inspiration comes from. Donnie Hathway was a giant of yesterday's soul artists and had few equals.

This is very much a soul-jazz album as Donnie Hathaway was equally at home singing or playing keyboards and this album has an absolute corker keyboard track "Valdez in the country" that you just want to get up and dance to, but his keyboard dexterity can be heard throughout. One of my favourite tracks if not my favourite is "Love, Love, Love" which speaks about love taking a long time to find him. Then there's "Flying Easy" which is a nice mid-tempo number that just glides along. Of Donnie Hathway's better known tracks would come anything that he did with Roberta Flack but equally the stunning "Someday we'll all be free" track will also be the version of this song that many of you will be acquainted with.

For a piece of soul history and also as a reference for many of today's contemporary artists you should buy this.