The Love Doctor - Doctor Of Love Audio Cassette Release Date: September 18, 2001
There's bad bad, and then there's just sad bad, and Doctor of Love unfortunately falls into the latter category. The son of a Memphis sharecropper, Lewis Clark had been a gospel-blues radio DJ for 20 years before embarking on a blues career of his own in 1997 under the stage name the Blues Doctor. And he was 51 years old by the time he adopted a new name, the Love Doctor, and a new style, R&B, in hopes of escaping the stigma blues had developed with radio programmers. Nearly every single thing about this album borders on laughable, from the cliché-ridden grooves and outdated production style to the sound itself, which recalls past-their-prime artists like Clarence Carter and Marvin Sease. It's hard not to make fun of ridiculously sappy love songs like "Soaking Wet Pillow" and the title track, or well-intentioned "message" songs like "Somebody's Child." You can only hope that when this album inevitably fails to gain airplay, Clark will return to the blues, radio programmers be damned.
Track Listing:
Side 1:
1. Soaking Wet Pillow
2. Doctor Of Love
3. Somebody's Child
4. Run Away
5. Slow Roll It
Side 2:
6. My Forever Love
7. Everyday Woman
8. Don't Quit
9. Love Me With A Feeling
10. Don't Let It Stop Your Party
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