I've always felt like his music was too southern, like southern soft rock meets 70's r&b ballads, which I was never into music anything on those lanes except maybe some Poco & Paul Davis.

I do like the collaboration song he did with Grover Washington Jr. "Just The Two Of Us" and I like the music to "Lovely Day", other than that, everything else he does, doesn't move me.

Is he "underrated", I'm not sure about that cause he has had hits, but so has a million others; sometimes I think we get this mindset that want to give almost every r&b/soul artist who has only had one or two hits that "underrated" tag when sometimes they really wasn't underrated just good at what they did, and had a lot of decent but not amazing tunes with some gems in between that kept our ears satisfied.

I don't think artists set out to make an album with one good song and seven to ten bad songs, they try to make an cohesive album that you can listen to from beginning to end, while hoping to have at least one hit song that will make someone purchase & be happy with the album; some did it better than others while a lot of artists sucked at it.

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