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Love IS (Lyrics included with album)

Artist: Studdard Ruben

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    Together – Ruben Studdard 04:26
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    More Than Words – Ruben Studdard 04:24
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    Song for Her – Ruben Studdard 03:49
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    How You Make Me Feel – Ruben Studdard 03:51
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    Don't Make 'Em Like U No More – Ruben Studdard 03:18
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    I Can't Help It – Ruben Studdard 04:06
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    Just Because – Ruben Studdard 04:11
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    My Love Is a Rock – Ruben Studdard 03:47
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    The Long and Winding Road – Ruben Studdard 03:51
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    For the Good Times – Ruben Studdard 04:50
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    We Got Love (That's Enough) – Ruben Studdard 03:21
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    Footprints in the Sand – Ruben Studdard 03:57

Ruben Studdard's career has been a study in course corrections, with each album acting as an answer to what preceded it. Love IS is a reaction to the heavy ****** of The Return, scaling back the seductive Luther Vandross vibe -- something Studdard's couldn't really pull off in the first place -- and playing up Ruben's cuddly qualities. These are songs of longtime relationships, not new love, and the music is appropriately settled, grounded in quiet storm but drifting into adult contemporary via covers of Extreme's "More Than Words" and the Beatles' "Long and Winding Road," all of which helps give the album a bit of a retro-vibe; really only the stuttering rhythms of "Don't Make Em" make it seem like it could fit onto the contemporary RB charts. This could be called resignation, but it's really an acceptance of what Ruben Studdard's peculiar strengths are: he's a smooth soul singer constitutionally incapable of suggesting anything racier than a tight snuggle, so it's best to keep him warm and huggable, as Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis do here. Not that Love IS is perfect -- it's so relaxed it can sometimes be sleepy and Ruben's upper register, which he relies upon too much, can sometimes seem whiny -- but as a whole this is the best recorded representation of Ruben's talents to date. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

  • Genre: R&B
  • Category Contemporary R&B
  • Label: HICKORY RECORDS
  • Release Date: May 19, 2009
  • Artist: Studdard Ruben

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  • Online Item #: 11307711
  • Store Item Number (DPCI): 012-03-0204
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