Description
Personnel: Kenny Lattimore (vocals, background vocals); Sherrod Barnes (guitar, wah-wah guitar); Ira Siegel (guitar, sitar); Tim Shider (guitar, keyboards); Jarius Mozee, Melvin Charles Smith (guitar); John Smith (acoustic guitar); Barry J. Eastmond (strings, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, percussion, drum programming); Everette Harp (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Mark Gross (alto saxophone); Keith Loftis, Kenneth Loftis (tenor saxophone); Jason Marshall (baritone saxophone); George Fontenette (trumpet, programming, drum programming); Saunders Sermons (trombone); Chedrick Mitchell, Shedrick Mitchell (organ); John Anderson , Skip Anderson (synthesizer); Dustin Moore, Jerry Barnes (bass guitar); Michael White (drums, percussion); Michael White , Omar Hakim, Ralph Rolle, Willburn "Squidley" Cole (drums); Gordon Williams (percussion, programming); Rafael Padilla, Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Tabetha Dandy, Tamika Peoples, Amanda Dandy, Eddie Cole & His Gang (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Gordon Williams; Ray Bardani.
Recording information: Avatar Recording Studios, New York, NY; Clean House, Teaneck, NJ; Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY; East Baby Music Recording Studios, Tarrytown, NY; Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY; LAFX Recording Studios, North Hollywood, CA; Stagg Street Studios, Van Nuys, CA; The Flatte, Jersey City, NJ; White Lightning Studios, Sylmar, CA.
Photographer: Kwaku Alston.
Arrangers: Gordon Williams; Tim Shider; Kenny Lattimore; Barry J. Eastmond.
Kenny Lattimore's suave, loverman croon is always a balm for the ears, and on TIMELESS, the artist's 2008 covers album, he sounds smoother than ever. Lattimore's choice of songs is satisfying (Aretha Franklin's "Ain't No Way," Stevie Wonder's "It Ain't No Use"), and at times surprising (his treatment of Jeff Buckley's "Everybody Here Wants You" is one of the album's standouts). But the singer doesn't rely on just the familiarity of the tunes to carry the album; his performances--sensual, sensitive, and creamy as spun butter--are topnotch throughout, and the whole is given a sweet, adult urban contemporary twist.
- Format: CD
- Genre: R&B
- Released: 2008-09-09