Turn You to Love explained
| Turn You to Love |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Terry Callier |
| Cover: | Terry Callier - Turn You to Love.jpg |
| Alt: | Callier looking at the camera as two women embrace him |
| Genre: | Rhythm and blues |
| Language: | English |
| Label: | Elektra |
| Producer: | Reginald “Sonny” Burke |
| Prev Title: | Fire on Ice |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | Time Peace |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
Turn You to Love is a studio album from American musician Terry Callier. Released by Elektra Records in 1979, this is the artist's sixth album and the second with Elektra. It has received mixed critical reception.
Critical reception
Writing for Pitchfork, Andy Beta scored this album and 1978's Fire on Ice a 5.5 out of 10, with praise for Callier's vocals on this recording proving that "he could've been a distinct R&B personality had the breaks gone his way". The editorial staff of AllMusic Guide scored this album four out of five stars, with reviewer Thom Jurek declaring it "easily Terry Callier's most underrated album" after the "miss" that was Fire on Ice.
Track listing
- "Sign of the Times" (Terry Callier and Larry Wade) – 8:25
- "Pyramids of Love" (Wade) – 3:42
- "Turn You to Love" (Callier and Wade) – 3:46
- "Do It Again" (Walter Becker and Donald Fagen) – 4:52
- "Ordinary Joe" (Callier) – 4:54
- "Occasional Rain" (Callier) – 3:49
- "Still Water (Love)" (Smokey Robinson and Frank Wilson) – 3:48
- "You and Me (Will Always Be in Love)" (Callier and Wade) – 4:21
- "A Mother's Love" (Callier, Earl Johnson, and Wade) – 3:44
Personnel
- Terry Callier – guitar, vocals
Additional musicians
- Michael Boddicker – synthesizer
- Oscar Brashear – trumpet
- Oliver C. Brown, Jr. – percussion
- Keni Burke – bass guitar on all tracks, except "Ordinary Joe"
- Reginald “Sonny” Burke – keyboards, synthesizer, arrangement, conducting, production
- James Gadson – membranophone
- William Green – saxophone
- Elizabeth Howard – backing vocals
- James Jamerson – bass guitar on "Ordinary Joe"
- Barbara Korn – French horn
- Gayle Levant – harp
- Steve Madaio – trumpet
- Arthur Maebe – French horn
- James "Alibe" Sledge – backing vocals
- Patricia Henley Talbert – backing vocals
- Tommy Tedesco – guitar, mandolin
- Earl Van Dyke – keyboards
- Larry Wade – guitar
- David T. Walker – guitar
- Melvin “Wah Wah” Watson – guitar
- Ernie Watts – saxophone
- Fred Wesley – trombone
- Robert White – guitar
Technical personnel
