Track Listing
1. (What Makes Me Fall in Love), Do You Really Want to Know
2. If I Were Your Woman II
3. I Said You Lied
4. Grandma's Hands
5. Love Hurts
6. I Wanna Be Loved - (featuring Jamie Foxx)
7. Greatest Love of All
8. Better Love Next Time
9. (In Love With You), Please Help Me I'm Falling
10. Something Blue
11. Just Take Me
12. Rose Bouquet
13. That's Why They Call It Love
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Greg Phillinganes, Jamie Foxx, Toni Estes | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel includes: Gladys Knight, Jamie Foxx (vocals); James "D.C." Wilson III, Shep Crawford (various instruments); James Harrah (acoustic & electric guitars); Bruce Gritsch (acoustic guitar); Jerry McPherson (electric guitar); Jamey Jaz (guitar, programming); Joe Mumford, Josh Sklar, John "Jubu" Smith, Eric Jackson, Proffessa, Tim Morey (guitar); Gene Orloff, Winterton B. Garvey, Max Ellen, Regis Landiorio, Andrew Stein, Elizabeth Miller, Abraham Appleman, Katsuke Esaki, Marilyn Reynolds, Belinda Whitney, Ming Yeh, Peter J. Prossier, Jeanne Leblanc, Richard Locker (strings); Greg Phillinganes (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); Keith Thomas (piano, synthesizer, programming); Keith Crouch (organ, keyboards); Bradley Spalter (keyboards, programming).
Producers: Gladys Knight, Randy Jackson, Tiger, Gary Brown, James "D.C. Wilson, III.
Engineers: Tiger, Adam Kagan, Jamey Jaz.
AT LAST won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Album.
For her first mainstream pop/R&B album since 1994's JUST FOR YOU, soul legend Gladys Knight teamed up with a host of young contemporary producers including Randy Jackson and Shep Crawford. The result is a record that successfully places her alongside younger acts like Kelly Price and Deborah Cox. Plunging headfirst into the many facets of love, Knight comes up with a collection of slower songs that combine her soulful singing style with mature subject matter.
Topics vary, from the pleading piano-driven "Please Help Me I'm Falling (In Love With You)," about breaking off an illicit relationship, to the search for a worthy mate (the Brian McKnight-flavored Jamie Foxx duet "I Wanna Be Loved"). Knight's vocals get to marinate in the midtempo grooves, with rich material like a hushed, gospel-flavored reading of Bill Withers' "Grandma's Hands," and the harmony-laden slow jam that is Babyface's "Love Hurts." Most impressive is the former child prodigy's reworking of country star Phil Vassar's "Rose Bouquet," which gets transformed into a future Quiet Storm classic, complete with call-and-response vocals, chimes, and a rock-solid groove. AT LAST is a powerful creative statement from one of music's all-time greats.
Editorial Reviews
3 discs out of 5 - ...Allows Knight to do what she does best: interpret a lyric with maximum emotional impact....representing her craft better than any solo effort to date...
Vibe (03/01/2001)
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