There may not be much variety or many remarkable songs on the record - 'Get Crunk Tonight' stands out with its stuttering, fade-in-fade-out intro and its stylishly funky beat - but that doesn't matter because this is essentially a mood record, and that mood is love. Joe never oversings or oversells a song, he just lays back and sweetly sings.
He's not as ambitious as D'Angelo is, but that doesn't really matter, since he delivers the goods on his third album, My Name Is Joe.
He's an old-fashioned romantic soul crooner in the vein of Al Green, Marvin Gaye, D'Angelo, and, well, Gregory Abbott. Joe is hardly an appropriate name for a lover man - it seems more like a moniker for a custodian than a Casanova - but that's exactly what Joe is.
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