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Critics uniformly lauded this album as a great leap from his debut on the scene 2 years prior to this largely mature effort. The album opens with the first single "Days Like This," an introspective midtempo R&B track with avant garde electronic inflections. "Days," along with 7 other tracks on the album were co-written by Lattimore.A highlight is Lattimore's faithful and yet individual cover of Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway
Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer-songwriter and musician. Hathaway contracted with Atlantic Records in 1969 and with his first single for the Atco label, "The Ghetto, Part I" in early 1970, Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music."His collaborations...
's "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know," first heard on Hathaway's landmark Extension of a Man album. Lattimore also reimagines The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by George Harrison, first recorded by The Beatles in 1968 for their eponymous double album...
" as a soulful ballad that closes with a hypnotically layered arrangement of background vocals. "Who knew that 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' could be so sexy?" remarks Michael Gallucci.
Adding synergy to the album was the bonus inclusion of the gently soaring ballad "Love Will Find A Way," a duet with Heather Headley
Heather Headley
Heather Headley is a Trinidadian-American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and one Grammy Award.-Personal life:...
from the Disney movie The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated film released by Walt Disney Home Video on October 27, 1998. The film is the sequel to the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King...
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Chart performance
SalesThe album peaked at #71 on The Billboard 200 album chart. On Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...
the set reached #15.
The lead single "Days Like This" peaked at #84 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. Re-released with soulful "nuyorican soul" house mixes by Masters At Work
Masters At Work
Masters at Work is the house/garage production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. They first worked together using the name, which had been given to them by mutual friend Todd Terry , in 1990...
, the track climbed to #26 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The second single "If I Lose My Woman" fared better on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, peaking at #15.
Airplay
Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Recurrents airplay chart saw the original release of "Days Like This" shoot to #20 on the charts. The dance remixes of "Days Like This" reached #26 on the Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
chart.
"If I Lose My Woman" topped the Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles in early 1999 within 3 weeks of its appearance on the chart.
Track listing
- Days Like This (5:17)
- Trial Separation (4:45)
- If I Lose My Woman (5:25)
- Make Believe (4:46)
- Just Can't Get Over You (5:22)
- I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (6:30)
- Destiny (4:32)
- Tomorrow (5:21)
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (5:29)
- Heaven & Earth (5:48)
- All My Tomorrows (4:46)
- Interlude: Introspective Mood (0:20)
- Well Done (5:35)
- Love Will Find a Way (featuring Heather HeadleyHeather HeadleyHeather Headley is a Trinidadian-American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and one Grammy Award.-Personal life:...
) (4:30) - BONUS TRACK - If You Could See You (Through My Eyes) (4:59) - HIDDEN TRACK