A former member of the Zircons, a '50s group which scored with the novelty record "No Twisting on Sunday," it's no surprise that
Wilson Meadows has been away from the music scene for a couple of decades. His vocal prowess has diminished and his songwriting skills prove to be amateurish -- the fact that
Meadows wrote many of the Zircons' songs may explain why they were never a big group. The musical programming is bland as well -- all the fast songs sound repetitive and all the ballads sound like funeral processions. The only salvageable songs are the two
Meadows did not write, "Where Will This Leave Me?" and "Just Like I Promised"; both are ballads with pleasing bridges and choruses. The rest of this material is pedestrian. It seems absurd to hear a mature singer like
Meadows seeking to create hard-edged R&B in the fashion of stars such as
Gerald LeVert or
R. Kelly; he would be well advised to study peers such as
Isaac Hayes,
Barry White and
Eddie LeVert who successfully bridged the gap between yesteryear and the here-and-now. ~ Bil Carpenter