Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Simple Things | | 4:40 | | 2 | | Beautiful Eyes | | 4:06 | | 3 | | Don't You Forget It | | 4:08 | | 4 | | Something To See | | 4:58 | | 5 | | Lonely | | 4:01 | | 6 | | This Love | | 4:29 | | 7 | | One More Day | | 3:26 |
See more tracks| 8 | | Dream | | 3:45 | | 9 | | Is It True | | 3:36 | | 10 | | Never Too Late | | 4:10 | | 11 | | Take Me | | 4:40 | | 12 | | Sorry | | 4:54 | | 13 | | Take You High | | 4:11 | | 14 | | It's Not Fair | | 4:59 | | 15 | | Your Song (For you) | | 5:17 |
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Review
Comparisons to Stevie Wonder come thick and fast in any discussion about young Toronto singer-composer Glenn Lewis: The music on this extraordinary debut is relaxed soul with a jazzy edge, and Lewis sports a high, vibrant voice with a slight thickness around the talky parts. While it's true that Lewis' nature-given instrument is made for winning Wonder impersonation contests -- tracks such as "Lonely" vamp and stutter in vintage Wonder style -- his fluid, unstrained delivery recalls Donny Hathaway even more. Lewis' songs are compassionate and old-fashioned,… Read More "realistic" in the Seventies style and less booty-conscious than those of possibly any other soul artist today. He plays the levelheaded romantic innocent, stunned and sorrowed by the manipulative female of "Is It True," and by his own misdeeds on "Sorry." But, for the most part, the singer has uncynical words of encouragement to offer, insisting to the right girl that it's "Never Too Late," telling his lady to hold on throughout the glistening ballad "Something to See" and bucking up a girl overwhelmed by the demands of adult life on the breezily flowing first single, "Don't You Forget It." Neosoul has had its day; welcome, neoclassic soul, grease-free and offered with a smile. ARION BERGER
(RS 892 - March 28, 2002)
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