Track Listing

1. Love Patience And Time
2. Hunger, The
3. You're The Only One
4. Don't Let Go
5. Everlove - Benet, Eric & Terry Dexter
6. Chocolate Legs
7. Weekend Girl
8. Iminluvwichoo - Benet, Eric & Linda Kiraly
9. Spanish Fly
10. Still I Believe
11. Sing To Me
12. One More Tomorrow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35371 in Music
• Released on: 2009-03-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: CD, Import
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

CD Description
While Eric Benet's 2005 release, HURRICANE, reflected the urban contemporary singer's personal struggle following the break-up of his marriage with actress Halle Berry, 2008's LOVE & LIFE represents a new page in Benet's life and career. Positive, celebratory, and imbued with the spirit of classic R&B, the album plays like a ray of soulful sunshine. Lead-off single "You're the Only One" (which shot to number one on the Urban Adult Contemporary charts) drips with a vintage R&B feel, and there are touches of gospel, hip-hop, and jazz throughout the album as well. Whether playing the loverman ("Chocolate Legs") or taking a more meditative turn ("Still I Believe"), Benet is sensual, smooth, and life-affirming on LOVE & LIFE.

Customer Reviews

Superb
This is an excellent album by an artist with so far litte exposure in the UK. No poor tracks, my favourites being: "The Hunger", "weekend girl" and "don't let go". His forthcoming 3 night visit to the Jazz Cafe should help launch him here.

Chocolate Legs
Fantastic album, was lucky enough to see him perform at the Jazz Cafe in London... His band were fantastic and Eric is just Pure sex on legs, as smooth as the best chocolate!

Pleasant, but no angst to speak of............
This CD is pleasant, the artist has a good voice, the production is on point, and no doubt, in the current market it MAY do very well. But to these ears there is nothing on offer that sets it's a apart from the competition. And that the problem, as far as I'm concerned. Whilst there is nothing wrong with singing about love, there is if there's nothing on offer. The two stand out tracks are chocolate legs, and Spanish Fly. To get that angst into his next project, whilst I'm not one for celebrity gossip, he could for example, use the intrigue ref his ex-wife, to build a collection of songs dealing with hurt, betrayal, etc. Until Mr. Benet opens himself up, a la Marvin Gayle, and takes some risks, I fear that he'll just be lost in the abundance of so-called R&B artists that are on the scene nowadays.