Bobby Valentino - Bobby Valentino (MP3@320 kbps) [FrankFoo]

Bobby Valentino - Bobby Valentino (MP3@320 kbps)

Editorial Reviews -- 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
Studio/Live Studio
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 > dbPoweramp > MP3
Includes: ID3 Tags & front.jpg?042148 NFO, PLS, M3U


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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