Ronald Isley - Mr. I (Album Version) '2010

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Take It How You Want It (Album Version)
02. No More (Album Version)
03. If I Lose My Woman (Album Version)
04. Put Your Money On Me (Album Version)
05. Supposed To Do (Album Version)
06. Dance For Me (Album Version)
07. What I Miss The Most (Album Version)
08. I Need You (Album Version)
09. You've Got A Friend (Album Version)
10. You Had Me At Hello (Album Version)

The songs on Mr. I featuring hype men who dramatically declare the return of
Ronald Isley must be referring to the singer’s expired prison term. When
the album was released, the previous Isley Brothers disc was only three years
old. Isley really wasn’t away - not in musical terms, at least. And
it’s not like the 2006 album Baby Makin’ Music was a wayward flop;
it went to number one on Billboard’s R&B chart and did so without Isley
having to leave his lane all that often. This time out, for whatever reason,
there’s an effort to make more of the songs sound like they are coming
from someone one-third Isley’s age. The rapid stutter kick drums, syrupy
vocal interjections, and backing shouts in “Put Your Money on Me,”
for example, are much more suited for guest star T.I. than Isley. When Mr. I
plays to Isley’s strengths, as on atmospheric ballads that avoid the
come-ons of twentysomething singers (“Dance for Me,” “What I
Miss the Most”), it’s just fine, very much in the vein of
latter-day Isley Brothers albums. Then again, several lines from “Supposed
to Do” - like “Put them pictures on your Facebook and let them
haters know” - make it all the more evident that we’re not in
Atlantis anymore.



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