True Believer (1993)

On his first album for a new label, Ronnie Milsap musters all his old strengths — great R&B grooves, a natural gift for wedding modern attitude and old-fashioned rock, and vocally, at least, the elasticity of a trampoline. Unfortunately, he also drags out his major weakness — a tendency to slog through sappy Barry Manilow territory. But on True Believer Milsap takes more chances than he has dared to in a decade and largely succeeds. B