BLACKSUMMERS'NIGHT (2009) (SILVER METALI 2/17/2023 and the killer cut "That's

and the killer cut "That's Life" revives the haphazard fury of the early years in under a minute-twenty

As good a job as Mike Thorne did on the song "Voices Carry

while "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me" was rocketing up the pop charts on its way to becoming his first number one single

and Dallas on the Mob Rules tour

and flashy synth

BLACKSUMMERS'NIGHT (2009) (SILVER METALI 2/17/2023 and the killer cut "That'sBlackSUMMERS'night begins the way BLACKsummers'night ends: with a riveting groove in need of an extended 12" version. Like the instrumental finale of the album that preceded it, which now sounds like a set up, "All the Ways Love Can Feel" is a dynamic and deliberate soul, jazz, and funk fusion, neatly interlaced and enlivened with Kenneth Whalum III's saxophone and Keyon Harrold's trumpet. The grain in Maxwell's voice evinces the reality: the seven