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Lionel Richie is smooth.  Or maybe I should have written that smoooooth.  He’s very smooth. 

I reluctantly listened to this album, but it was actually pretty good.  I know he’s had quite a career since 1992 (as a judge on American Idol among many other things) but musically, I think this album all you need to know of his work.  A mix of his solo singles and Commodores tracks (I could jam in a reference to Faith No More in this review…who did a pretty faithful cover of Easy) it is (have I said this before?) smooth.  It’s easy listening, but not unpleasant.  I don’t think you can mention Lionel Richie and not bring up Hello.  What do you remember of the song?  Bad pottery.  That’s what I remember.  But really, I could have summed up the whole album with one word.

Smooth.