The Very Best of Michael McDonald

Michael McDonald - The Very Best of Michael McDonald

The Very Best of Michael McDonald
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Artist: Michael McDonald
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-04-03
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. No Lookin' Back
  2. I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)
  3. I Gotta Try
  4. No Mercy: Our Love (Single Version)
  5. Yah Mo B There (Single Version)
  6. On My Own
  7. By Heart
  8. Bad Times
  9. Matters Of The Heart
  10. Sweet Freedom (Single Version)
  11. Get The Word Started
  12. Any Foolish Thing
  13. Take It To Heart
  14. Higher Ground
  15. Lost In The Parade
  16. Blink Of An Eye

Free Music Notes for The Very Best of Michael McDonald

Free Music Review: THAT VOICE ! (Michael McDonald's soulful expressions are unique and spiritual)
Hit: 4 Stars

Nobody sings like Michael McDonald. Nobody. His deep and soulful expressions reach the heart and soul in a profound way. He feels what he sings, and you feel it, too.

The Very Best Of Michael McDonald (2001) is a 1980s-early 1990s collection of the best of his solo work and two duets (James Ingram, Patti LaBelle). None of his Doobie Brothers songs are here, but with all of the great solo material that is here, that can wait for another day. The spiritual duet Yah Mo B There (w/James Ingram) is absolutely fantastic! The title actually means "God will be there", and the song is intensely uplifting.

You can count on it, brother
Because we're all just finding our way
Travelling through time
People got to keep pushing on
No matter how many dreams slip away
Yah Mo B There

The resigned, but hopeful, On My Own (w/Patti LaBelle) is also very good, and these two great singers complement each other perfectly as they draw you into their story. Michael's rock n' soul version of Stevie Wonder's Higher Ground is a nice surprise, too, and a wonderful cover of a great song. I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) and the hit single Sweet Freedom are both entertaining and satisfying highlights, too. There are love songs, hurt songs, social/political/spiritual songs and they all get masterfully expressive treatment from the blue-eyed soul singer.

As a single disc compilation of Michael McDonald's solo material, this collection works very well, and the remastered sound is great. If you want to hear this expressive and soulful singer at his very best, then The Very Best Of Michael McDonald is a good way to go.

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Michael McDonald got his big break in Southern California singing with Steely Dan in 1974. He later became a superstar as a lead singer/keyboardist with The Doobie Brothers from 1975 to 1982, contributing such megahits as "Takin' It To The Streets," "It Keeps You Runnin'," "Minute By Minute," and the triple-Grammy'-winning #1 smash "What A Fool Believes." Post-Doobies, McDonald scored gold with his 1982 solo debut LP If That's What It Takes and its #4 single "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)." His career has since taken him back to the rootsier rhythms he explores today. The Very Best Of Michael McDonald spotlights the legendary artist's greatest solo sides, including all of the hits from his own albums, movie soundtracks, and collaborations with James Ingram, Patti LaBelle, Kenny Loggins, Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach, David Foster, Peter Wolf, Joe Walsh, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, John Tesh, and Don Was-plus a previously unissued version of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" taken from the ex-Doobie's 1990 Take It To Heart sessions. The accompanying liner notes feature new quotes from McDonald himself.

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