Silky Soul Explained

Silky Soul
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Maze
Cover:	Silkysoul.jpg
Released:	September 1989
Recorded:	1988–89
Genre:	Soul, funk
Length:	57:46
Label:	Warner Bros.
Producer:	Frankie Beverly
Prev Title:	Live in Los Angeles
Prev Year:	1986
Next Title:	Back to Basics
Next Year:	1993

Silky Soul is an album by the Bay Area-based R&B group Maze, released in 1989 on Warner Bros. Records.^{[1] [2]}

Critical reception

The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that Silky Soul "finds Maze updating its graceful sound with a subtly bracing touch of synthesized rhythms." The Boston Globe thought that Frankie Beverly ably spans "boudoir intimacies and pleas for South African liberation and black cooperation—all with a voice as cool and buttery as [Marvin] Gaye's."^[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Frankie Beverly

1. "Silky Soul" 6:44
2. "Can't Get Over You" 5:23
3. "Just Us" 7:39
4. "Somebody Else's Arms" 5:53
5. "Midnight" 6:32
6. "Love's on the Run" 5:34
7. "Change Our Ways" 5:15
8. "Songs of Love" 6:14
9. "Mandela" 6:36
10. "Africa" 2:11

Charts

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions^[5]
		US	US R&B	UK
1989	"Can't Get Over You"	-	1	89
	"Silky Soul"	-	4	-
1990	"Love's on the Run"	-	13	-
	"Songs of Love"	-	37	-

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1989 (U.S.)

External links

• Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly -Silky Soul at Discogs

Notes and References

1. Web site: Maze | Biography & History. AllMusic.
2. Nathan . David . Frankie Beverly & Maze Find Their Way Back to Charts . Billboard . Sep 30, 1989 . 101 . 39 . 30.
3. News: Morse . Steve . SILKY SOUL STAGES A SWEET RETURN . The Boston Globe . 29 Apr 1990 . B29.
4. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4862/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}} Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly US albums chart history]. allmusic.com. 2011-06-29.
5. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4862/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly US singles chart history]. allmusic.com. 2011-06-29.