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Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW
Like R&B vocalists from Stevie Wonder to Al Green, Kenny ''Babyface''
Edmonds can take bland or treacly material — here, for example, James
Taylor's ''Fire and Rain'' — and render it superior to the original with
delicate or atypical phrasing plus sheer commitment. Passion, not
laid-backness, rules on Playlist, a set of originals and covers. Sometimes
Babyface's take is equal to the singer's (Bob Dylan's ''Knockin' on
Heaven's Door''). Less successful: the fussy arrangements on cringers
like Jim Croce's ''Time in a Bottle.'' B
DOWNLOAD THIS Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Posted Sep 14, 2007
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