K-Ci & JoJo
's career as a duo is what greatest-hits compilations were made for. None of their four albums, released between 1997 and 2002, are thoroughly satisfying, yet not without some major highlights -- the dozen-plus chart hits they've stacked help indicate that.
All My Life: Their Greatest Hits
contains most of those hits and adds a handful of album cuts that deserved more attention. Crucially, the disc also includes
K-Ci
's
Mtume
-produced cover of
Bobby Womack
"If You Think You're Lonely Now,"
the biggest reason why copies of the
Jason's Lyric
soundtrack
were flying out of record stores for a couple months during 1994. If you've loved what you've heard on the radio but never sought out any of the albums, this disc is an ideal way to remedy that.
never made waves like their previous group,
Jodeci
, but their output is further evidence that
soul
music has not died. ~ Andy Kellman