Gladys Knight, Before Me - 58m 37s

Tracks & Durations

1. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me	3:56
2. The Man I Love	4:22
3. Good Morning Heartache	4:25
4. Since I Feel For You	3:51
5. God Bless The Child	4:55
6. This Bitter Earth	4:06
7. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)	4:24
8. Someone To Watch Over Me	4:54
9. But Not For Me	4:00
10. I'll Be Seeing You	3:58
11. Stormy Weather	4:26
12. Come Sunday	5:38
13. Willow Weep For Me	5:32

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Review

By now, the list of late-career standards-coverers stretches a mile long--in addition to Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow, Smokey Robinson, and a host of less-successful others, add Gladys Knight to the tally. Don't just lump her in, though, because Before Me differs from its forebears in ways that won't let you forget it. Here is a flawlessly selected and executed exercise in nostalgia for all the right reasons: Knight, in a voice entirely undiminished, extracts the elegance from each of these legendary numbers and smears it all over the surface, something most listeners would expect only from a master stylist on the order of Tony Bennett. Yet the former Pip leader presides with a light touch. Replacing the powerful pop-soul that launched her legend with the swankiest, most black-tie jazz imaginable, she whispers her way through George and Ira Gershwin's "The Man I Love" and the candy-sweet lament "I'll Be Seeing You." Elsewhere, she smokes up the Lady Day classics "Good Morning Heartache," "The Man I Love," and "God Bless the Child," unintentionally turning the latter into a master course of vocal restraint. If "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" is the disc's wild card--Knight plays it light--the Duke Ellington stunner "Come Sunday," made popular by gospel legend Mahalia Jackson, is its five-star clincher: Knight punches her way through tirelessly, with a true believer's fervor. --Tammy La Gorce

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Before Me

Tracks: 12 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 53m (-6m 23s)

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