Lamont Dozier - Bittersweet

The illustrious singer turned songsmith cranks out eight post-Motown and Hotwax/Invictus tracks sounding like a bad cross between Levi Stubbs and Junior Walker -- lacking the dynamics and authority of Stubbs and the charisma and urgency of Walker, plus he doesn't have Junior's big tenor sax to bail him out. The overall production is the only thing that keeps this album from being a straight ho hummer. He executes songs in every tempo but fails to lock it in the pocket on any, really. Read More