You Make It Easy

Keith Washington | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 21, 1993)
• Original Release Date: September 21, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Qwest / Wea
• ASIN: B000002ML9
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,323 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let me make love to you (duet with Letitia Body)

2. Stay in my conrner

3. Don't leave me in the dark

4. You always gotta go

5. What it takes

6. We need to talk before I let go

7. Trippin'

8. Do what you like

9. Believe that

10. No one

11. You make it easy

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Keith Washington sounds so much like Luther Vandross, it's eerie. On You Make It Easy, Washington regularly employs the Vandross device of starting a phrase deep in his diaphragm and expelling the line in an upward swoosh of rising pitch and dynamics and then trailing off in a wistful sigh. For Vandross, the device is a technique to dramatize his well crafted songs, but for Washington, it's just a gimmick. He uses the trick to establish a romantic atmosphere because his clichéd songs aren't capable of telling a real story. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A near-perfect follow-up to his glorious debut album., January 12, 2006

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Justo Roteta (Los Angeles, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Make It Easy (Audio CD)

While not as powerful or intoxicating as his timeless debut albu, this was a great follow-up. "Stay In My Corner" and "Let Me Make Love To You" are simply superb. Given his enormous talent, it's almost unbelievanle that Keith Washington is not better known.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Silky smooth love songs, July 27, 2004

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Make It Easy (Audio CD)

The best songs here are Let Me Make Love To You (a duet with Letitia Body), Stay In My Corner and the title track, all three of them romantic love songs. Although the sound is slightly dated in its early 1990s R&B groove, it remains a pleasant listening experience on account of Washington's appealing voice and the tuneful material. Before I Let Go is a rhythmic, uptempo number and the Trippin' will also set your foot a tapping. There are also lovely emotional ballads like Do What You Like, No One and Believe That. The vocals, production and arrangements are perfect. If you like smooth soul and R&B, Keith's your man and this album delivers the goodies.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good followup, but the first one is better, September 19, 2004

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Preston (nc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Make It Easy (Audio CD)

Keith made a very good second album. But something is missing here. A few of the ballads lack passion. The Gerald Levert-produced songs are nowhere near the quality of Nettlesby and Coffey's songs that are on here and on his debut. I still like Stay in My Corner and the title song, but nothing matches the debut. I don't listen to this album as much as album 1 or album 3 by him.