Deniece Williams - Love Solves It All 1996 CD

Produced and for the most part written by Deniece, Alan Glass and Andrew Klippel, Deniece’s next CD, Love Solves It All (P.A.R. 2264, 1996), was again cut and programmed in London. There are two dancers and four mid-pacers, and among those four melodic mid-tempo songs there’s Stop a Tear from Falling Down, a track with a Caribbean beat, and here Deniece does a duet with Brinsley Ford. There’s even a short rap by Solomon on it – a new “conquest” for Deniece.

“This also was during the time, when I was trying to figure out what I was doing. Someone approached me about doing this project, and I said ‘why not. I’m on radio. I’m not doing any singing’. Of course, it’s not the best project I ever did, and I think it’s just indicative of being a very hard time for me personally, still having children being responsible for and in a foreign country. We shared the same language, but it’s a very different culture, and I was there alone – single parent with children. That’s not my best project, but I’m surprised, the emotional state that I was in, that I even got it done.” On those melodic mid-tempo and (four) slow songs some of the old magic is preserved. A hymn called Great Is Thy Faithfulness Deniece does a cappella.

Besides this new CD, a lot of compilations were released those days. In 1994 Sparrow put out a twelve-tracker titled Greatest Gospel Hits and a year later Sony gave us Change the World, a ten-song CD. The best compilation, Gonna Take a Miracle: the Best of Deniece Williams (Legacy 64839; # 85-r&b), consists of sixteen popular and best loved songs in Deniece’s career and it hit the streets in 1996.