★★★★★
Lionel Richie revisits some of his hit duets with help from Shania Twain, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney and more. Nashville loves, loves, LOVES it when pop stars come a-courtin', which makes Lionel Richie's entry into its field a sure bet for a warm welcome in Music City -- especially as he revisits his monster hit duets from the '80s with country stars including Shania Twain, Willie Nelson, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, Kenny Chesney, Blake Shelton and others...
- latimesblogs.latimes.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Lionel Richie's "You Are" was playing when I met my wife, so he'll always hold a special place on my iPod. But his three decade post-Commodores solo career has also been, for me, the source of conflicting emotions. There's never been a question of his talent, only of his judgment. While Richie has provided an abundance of memorable tunes and moments of brilliance, he has too often taken a path of least resistance...
- www.soultracks.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
In just one hour with HSN the past couple of days, Lionel Richie sold more than 20,000 copies of Tuskegee before it even hits the market. His mini-concert certainly helped draw people in but the appearance proved what we have thought since listening to Tuskegee. Great songs are great songs, no matter what 'genre' they were written for. Tuskegee is a collection of 13 duets with some of the best contemporary and legendary country singers...
- www.roughstock.com
2012-03-22
★★★★★
From Tuskegee, Alabama, Lionel Richie was always a county boy at heart: that much was implicit by the narrative-heavy ballads that pepper his back catalogue and the countless countrified covers of Three Times a Lady. Here, his Stetson is truly out of the closet as he gives a collection of his classic numbers a pronounced rural makeover, duet-style as he brings in some of the genre's biggest names...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-03-06
★★★★★
By 1983, Lionel Richie had become Motown's biggest star almost by default. With Stevie Wonder always a law unto himself when it came to releasing albums and , and all departing the imprint, a significant release was needed in the label's much-lauded 25th year. Jackson's was the new high water-mark in commercial pop/soul...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
For the first time in many years folks are talking about Lionel Richie for reasons other than what is daughter Nicole is doing. The big factor is "I Call It Love," his first legitimate hit in years and one of the most infectious songs of Summer 2006...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
"You like me! You really like me!" Like Sally Field's exclamation at the 1985 Oscars, Lionel Richie has, for the better part of three decades, played for the affection of popular music fans with a seemingly unquenchable desire to please. A talented singer with an uncanny sense of melody, Richie has been anything but "the ever tortured artist...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
I want to love Lionel Richie because he's earned his place in the pantheon of soul greats. But famed producer Antonio "L.A." Reid doesn't do the veteran R'n'B crooner any favours with this album, which is bereft of any of the real hooks or classic ballads Richie built his career on. Worse, one cannot escape the soulless drum machines and there's not enough of Richie's trademark piano...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
If you were hoping 1970s MOR superstar Lionel Richie might recapture his Commodores touch on his umpteenth solo album, think again. Nothing here echoes Richie's glory days. The formulaic R'n'B ballads sound tailor-made for radio and lack any real warmth and sincerity. Worse, Richie's piano isn't front and centre; his acoustic-guitar-driven Just to Be With You Again sounds more like a James Taylor ballad. As if this weren't enough, proceedings are further sabotaged by guest Lenny Kravitz.
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
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