Deeply personal 1973 soul recording created during Donny Hathaway’s troubled creative peak, balancing orchestral arrangements, spiritual reflection and emotional vulnerability while quietly reflecting the mental health struggles that would later overshadow his tragically short career and life.
Songs like “Someday We’ll All Be Free” and “I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know” carry a profound sense of exhaustion, hope and emotional fragility, with Hathaway’s voice moving between pain, reassurance and spiritual release in ways that influenced generations of neo-soul and conscious R&B.
Label: ATCO Records
Format: 12" Vinyl LP
Tracklist:
A1 I Love The Lord; He Heard My Cry (Parts I & II)
A2 Someday We'll All Be Free
A3 Flying Easy
A4 Valdez In The Country
A5 I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
B1 Come Little Children
B2 Love, Love, Love
B3 The Slums
B4 Magdalena
B5 I Know It's You
Deeply personal 1973 soul recording created during Donny Hathaway’s troubled creative peak, balancing orchestral arrangements, spiritual reflection and emotional vulnerability while quietly reflecting the mental health struggles that would later overshadow his tragically short career and life.
Songs like “Someday We’ll All Be Free” and “I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know” carry a profound sense of exhaustion, hope and emotional fragility, with Hathaway’s voice moving between pain, reassurance and spiritual release in ways that influenced generations of neo-soul and conscious R&B.
Label: ATCO Records
Format: 12" Vinyl LP
Tracklist:
A1 I Love The Lord; He Heard My Cry (Parts I & II)
A2 Someday We'll All Be Free
A3 Flying Easy
A4 Valdez In The Country
A5 I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
B1 Come Little Children
B2 Love, Love, Love
B3 The Slums
B4 Magdalena
B5 I Know It's You