Lush, lilting and full of DeVaughan’s trademark silky tenor to falsetto delivery, the self-styled ‘Love King’ is back with a 16 track offering in ‘Love, Sex, Passion’ that unsurprisingly tackles those exact three subjects. From the slow grind of ‘Black Ice Cream’ to the uptempo, old-school finger clicker ‘Pretty Lady’ featuring Trombone Shorty, to the celebratory ‘Queen’ there’s a decent amount of variety here. There’s both a confident swagger demonstrated in the prince-esq ‘Strip’ and a vulnerability as in the pleading ‘Nothing Without You’. ‘When You Love Somebody’ is a fantastic slab of deep southern soul while the low slung ‘Baby Come Back’ also has a lavish, retro feel. ‘Feather Rock Lovin’ features Boney James on sax and has strong Marvin Gaye parallels as does ‘Countdown To Love’ while ‘Temperature’s Rising’ and ‘Sun Proof Room’ are proper, grown folks tunes: full of sass and sway. Good album.
Track listings:
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01 Welcum 2 Love, Sex & Passion (Intro) by Raheem DeVaughn
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02 Black Ice Cream by Raheem DeVaughn
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03 Pretty Lady (ft. Trombone Shorty) by Raheem DeVaughn
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04 Queen by Raheem DeVaughn
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05 Nothing Without You by Raheem DeVaughn
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06 When You Love Somebody by Raheem DeVaughn
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07 All I Know (My Heart) by Raheem DeVaughn
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08 Terms Of Endearment by Raheem DeVaughn
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09 Miss Your Sex by Raheem DeVaughn
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10 Baby Come Back by Raheem DeVaughn
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11 Never Never Land by Raheem DeVaughn
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12 Temperature’s Rising by Raheem DeVaughn
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13 Sun Proof Room (50 Shades) by Raheem DeVaughn
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14 Strip by Raheem DeVaughn
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15 Countdown To Love by Raheem DeVaughn
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16 Feather Rock Lovin’ (ft. Boney James & The Illadelph Horns) by Raheem DeVaughn
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17 Infiniti by Raheem DeVaughn
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