Love & Freedom (2000) ( )

Product Summary Label: Uni/motown UPC: 00601215940527 Release Date: 8/29/2000 Buy.com Sku: 60431859 Item#: MWV6SN Buy.com Sales Rank: 24793 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Love And Freedom ~ BeBe Winans 2. Coming Back Home - (featuring Brian McKnight/JOE) ~ BeBe Winans 3. What About It ~ BeBe Winans 4. I'm In Love With You ~ BeBe Winans 5. How Do We ~ BeBe Winans 6. Everything To Me ~ BeBe Winans 7. Everyday - (featuring Stephanie Mills) ~ BeBe Winans 8. My Heart ~ BeBe Winans 9. Tonight Tonight - (featuring CeCe Winans) ~ BeBe Winans 10. Brand New Dance ~ BeBe Winans 11. For The Rest Of My Life ~ BeBe Winans 12. Jesus Children Of America - (featuring Stevie Wonder/Marvin L. Winans) ~ BeBe Winans 13. Stand ~ BeBe Winans (P) 2000 Universal Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. (C) 2000 Motown Record Company L.P.   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel includes: BeBe Winans (vocals, piano); Andrew Ramsey (guitar); Andy Snitzer (tenor saxophone); Jim Hynes (trumpet); Michael Davis (trombone); Marc Harris, Nigel Lowis (keyboards); DeDe Holt (drums); Stevie Wonder, Stephanie Mills, Brian McKnight, CeCe Winans, JOE, Marvin L. Winans. Producers: Kedor Massenburg, Evan Lamberg, BeBe Winans. LOVE & FREEDOM was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album and "Coming Back Home" was nominated for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. It's easy to get distracted by the high-powered guest appearances on LOVE & FREEDOM. When Stevie Wonder, Brian McKnight, and Stephanie Mills (among others) drop by to lend a hand, all ears are certain to be at attention. But to focus on this would be to miss the true substance of BeBe Winans' very personal, individualistic brand of R&B. Winans is no R. Kelly-style monomaniacal sex fiend singing endlessly of lusty affairs. As the album title implies, he's got deeper things on his mind. Though romance is certainly a part of the program, Winans transcends the carnal and aspires to the spiritual, his songs striking at the deepest recesses of the heart. While the production on LOVE & FREEDOM is utterly contemporary, there's a depth and resonance far beyond that of much cookie-cutter generic neo-R&B. The feel is generally subtle and mid-tempo, but funky grooves are ever-present. Naturally, the center of the entire affair is Winans' soulful singing, simultaneously understated and emotive as it weaves captivatingly through these tunes.   Compilation Appearances 1999-Wow Gospel I Surrender All Dance 2000-Wow Gospel One Family Wow Gospel 2002 Essential Eternal Embrace Pinnacle Project 2: Last Say So Gotta Have Gospel 3 Broken Bridges Randy Jackson's Music Club, Volume 1 My Favorite Time Of The Year Change Is Now: Renewing America's Promise   Technical Info Release Date : 08/29/2000 Original Release Date : 2000 Catalog ID : 159 405 Label : Motown Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00601215940527    Product Image