★★★★★
One thing you can say about Lenny Williams is the man has staying power. At 67 years old, the Oakland, California native has been going strong since the early 1970's, from his first solo recordings for Fantasy Records, to his stint with Tower of Power, to reinventing himself as a jack-of-all trades soul man in the 1980's on through to today. Williams has always been one to keep his finger of the pulse of R&B music, and as the times changed, so did he...
- www.soultracks.com
2012-09-10
★★★★★
While he's never had huge crossover success as a solo artist, Lenny Williams has had a sufficiently large and loyal following among Soul Music fans that he has continued recording long after many of his peers stopped. His 2004 release My Way died an unfortunate death due to lack of proper record company marketing, so he's taken his career back in his own hands for It Must Be Love, released on his Lentom Records...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
His first single, "Shoo Doo Fu Fu Ooh," was a young singer's whoop of triumph from the top of the world. It seemed to promise many more. But after three mediocre LPs--the first still the best--I've given up. Williams's subsequent tries at simple, ecstatic black pop have sounded like expert imitations, and most of the time he's just a love man, doing his best to shore up songs that were made to be broken. Never thought I'd believe he was better off in Tower of Power, but I do.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10