Move On

RELEASE
July 29, 1996
LABEL
Rounder Select
GENRES
Blues, Soul, Contemporary Blues, Retro-Soul

Album Review

The third album in Tracy Nelson's '90s comeback, Move On finds her sharing the microphone with the likes of Delbert McClinton, Phoebe Snow, Bonnie Raitt, and Maria Muldaur (the last three on "Ladies' Man"), singers with whom she shares a taste in bluesy rock with a country tinge. She is in typically fine voice on a set of songs more notable for the tasty playing on them than for their distinctiveness. The best among them is Nelson's own "Playin' It Safe" (one of her four compositions) which has a gospel feel to support the lyric's sage advice. Blues fans who caught up with Nelson on 1993's In the Here and Now or 1995's I Feel So Good may find this album, with its pop, rock, and R&B elements, a bit eclectic for their taste, but fans of Bonnie Raitt who long for her earlier, grittier music may find a new heroine.
William Ruhlmann, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Livin' on Love
  2. Got Me Goin'
  3. I Was Good to You Baby
  4. Playin' It Safe
  5. Tonight I'll Dream
  6. Drowning in Memories
  7. Ladies' Man
  8. Move On
  9. You Never Broke My Heart
  10. Somebody Loves You
  11. Playin' It Safe [Version]