Featured Album

Relight My Fire

RELEASE
1979
LABEL
Blue Sky
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Soul, Blue-Eyed Soul, Urban, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Disco

Album Review

Hartman's followup to Instant Replay, and while nothing here raced up the charts like that album's title single, the producer/singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist flashes his party energy through sturdy constructions. "Hands Down" trails off with Stevie Wonder and Edgar Winter trading fours on harmonica and sax respectively -- an inspired collaboration that could have run on a few minutes more. "Just for Fun," almost a one-man show, contrasts a muscular, syncopated hook to the insouciance of the lyric. The finale, "Free Ride," retools a hit Hartman originally wrote and sung for Edgar Winter, transferring the choogle of the older version's rhythm guitar to the rhythm section for a seemingly-simple discofication displaying the hand of a master crafsman.
Andrew Hamlin, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Hands Down
  2. Love Strong
  3. Vertigo
  4. Relight My Fire
  5. Just for Fun
  6. I Love Makin' Music
  7. Free Ride