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Elisabeth Withers had built up some career momentum, breaking through from being a backup singer to earning a Tony nomination for The Color Purple and issuing her debut solo album, It Can Happen to Anyone on Blue Note in 2007 when she decided to take a hiatus after discovering that she was spending so much time on her career that her young daughter thought the nanny was her mommy. Having achieved a better balance between her personal and professional lives, she is back three and three-quarters years later with No Regrets, on which she seems to be trying to strike a different kind of balance, that between an old school soul singer like Anita Baker and a hip-hop/R&B singer like Beyoncé. As usual with this kind of disc, the vocalist puts herself in the hands of series of writer/producer/multi-instrumentalists (Bob Antoine, Ivan Barias, Barry Eastmond, Toby Gad, Peter Lord) who construct remarkably similar sounding musical tracks with overloud drum programming into which she gets shoehorned, alternately singing simplistic self-affirming platitudes and love songs of the happy, unhappy, and hopeful varieties.
Condition: NEW.
TRACK LISTING
1 No Regrets 3:56
2 Dream 3:42
3 I Believe 3:33
4 Take Me 4:52
5 I Remember 3:10
6 Need Love 5:17
7 Rock & Rain 3:48
8 Why 3:37
9 Bittersweet 3:08
10 Alright 3:36
11 Say It Now 4:31
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