Luther Vandross: Dance With My Father : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Luther Vandross is justly celebrated as a singer's singer. He reinterprets pop and R&B classics masterfully, and his detailed lyrics give his own sleek ballads a lived-in presence, as if Luther was right there on the couch with you and your beloved, dishing out some friendly advice. Dance With My Father -- an album released as the R&B giant ails in a New York hospital in a coma -- suffers from being a little too down-tempo, and guest spots from the likes of Busta Rhymes and Foxy Brown come off as window dressing rather than true collaboration. A duet with Beyonce Knowles, "The Closer I Get to You," rises above the other cameos, but it's the anguished title track that sets Dance apart. When Vandross asks God to bring back his father, painful and private childhood memories turn a potentially maudlin song into a meditative, deeply personal prayer.

BARRY WALTERS
(RS 925, June 26, 2003)

(Posted: Jun 3, 2003)

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If I Didn't Know Better
Think About You
If It Ain't One Thing... - (featuring Foxy Brown) (track not available in Rhapsody)
Buy Me A Rose
The Closer I Get To You
Lovely Day - (featuring Busta Rhymes) (track not available in Rhapsody)
Dance With My Father
She Saw You
Apologize
Hit It Again - (featuring Queen Latifah) (track not available in Rhapsody)
Right In The Middle
Once Were Lovers
Lovely Day - (remix) (track not available in Rhapsody)
They Said You Needed Me