Bobby Valentino - Bobby Valentino (flac)

Bobby Valentino - Bobby Valentino (flac)



Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com - Tammy La Gorce



Bobby Valentino, the first artist signed to Ludacris' Disturbing Tha Peace label, aims to inhabit the smooth-daddy lothario vacancy left in R&B by the long-absent R. Kelly (who, in his day, filled it for Luther Vandross, who filled it for Barry White).



Though he lacks the vocal heat and instant magnetism of all those artists, there's a lot to like on this debut, the over-the-top attempts to insinuate himself into the fantasies of the opposite sex especially.



The song titles"shameless to a one"say it all: "Lights Down Low," "Come Touch Me," "One Girl To Love."

Subject matter aside, Valentino busts out a swoony vocal gift that, if not the stuff of legends, should serve him well on the R&B charts: shades of Stevie Wonder swim through "I'll Forgive You," a Winans influence wanders in on "Love Dream," and an old-school Coolio-style rap raises an edge around "Give Me A Chance." "Gangsta Love," with its "coke-bottle body/likes to get naughty" lyric, is a

slimly veiled ode to freakiness, and it flicks up the fun factor.





Recording information:



Release Date Apr 26, 2005

Producer Gary "Gizzy" Smith



Personnel:



Bobby Valentino - vocals

Tim Kelley - various instruments, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, drum programming

Bob Robinson - 12-string guitar, piano, keyboards

Gary Smith - drum programming

Kevin "KD" Davis



Linage: CD > EAC > flac

Includes: Vorbis Tags & Front.jpg



Track Listing



01. Some Bobby

02. Slow Down

03. Give Me a Chance

04. Never Lonely

05. Mista Valentino

06. Tell Me

07. My Angel (Never Leave You)

08. Want You to Know Me

09. Gangsta Love

10. Come Touch Me

11. I'll Forgive You (Interlude)

12. I'll Forgive You

13. Love Dream

14. Lights Down Low

15. One Girl to Love

16. Thank You Lord (Outro)

17. Slow Down (Remix)



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