Just Be My Lady
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| Just Be My Lady | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1981 | |||
| Studio | The Music Machine, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | R&B, funk | |||
| Label | Warner Bros.[1] | |||
| Producer | Larry Graham | |||
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Just Be My Lady is an album by the American R&B and funk musician Larry Graham, released in 1981.[2][3] Graham re-recorded the title track for his 1998 album, GCS 2000.[4]
The album peaked at No. 46 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart.[5] It peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Top Black Albums chart.[6]
Graham continued to move away from funk music, putting more emphasis on his R&B ballads.[7] He produced the album and played almost all of the instruments.[8] "Guess Who" is a cover of the Jesse Belvin song.[9]
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [10] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [1] |
| The New Rolling Stone Record Guide | [11] |
The Washington Informer thought that "Graham has established himself as a vocal personality that rivals, perhaps overshadows, his instrumental personality—one drips with tenderness while the other booms furiously."[12] Stereo Review called the album "a set of slow ballads oozed out in Lou Rawls-like low gear."[9] The Bangor Daily News determined that "what traces of his old R&B background exist have been pasteurized and homogenized."[13]
AllMusic wrote that "some selections are shaded with Graham's doo wop and gospel influence, and all have much appeal."[10] Dave Marsh, in The New Rolling Stone Record Guide, dismissed Graham as "one of those lugubriously philosophizing soul crooners."[11]
