Stand for Love

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{{Infobox album

| name = Stand for Love

| type = Studio

| artist = Peabo Bryson

| cover = Stand for Love.jpg

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| released = August 3, 2018

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| genre = R&B{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/stand-for-love-mw0003177576|title=Stand for Love|website=Allmusic |accessdate=November 23, 2020}}

| length = 40:09

| label = Perspective

| producer =

| prev_title = Missing You

| prev_year = 2007

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Stand for Love is the twenty-first studio album by American singer Peabo Bryson. It was released on August 3, 2018, by Perspective Records, with distribution overseen by Caroline, the independent services wing of Capitol Records, his former label.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/peabo-bryson-love-like-yours-and-mine-r-and-b-732577/|title=How R&B Survivor Peabo Bryson Fought His Way Back to Radio |magazine=Rolling Stone|accessdate=November 23, 2020|first=Elias|last=Light|date=4 October 2018 }} Bryson's first album in a decade, it marked his debut with Perspective, the label by production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis with whom he worked on the entire album.{{cite web |url=https://www.vibe.com/2018/07/peabo-bryson-and-jimmy-jam-talks-stand-for-love-at-the-art-of-romancing-women|title=Peabo Bryson and Jimmy Jam Talks 'Stand For Love' At The Art Of Romancing Women |website=Vibe|accessdate=November 23, 2020|date=July 6, 2018|first=Ashley G.|last=Terrell}} Stand for Love was preceded by its lead single, "Love Like Yours and Mine" which reached number three on the US Adult R&B Songs chart.

Critical reception

J. Matthew Cobb from HiFi Magazine found that on Stand for Love "Bryson returns to the table and is completely updated on the contemporary R&B age we’re in, not sounding dated or ferociously young. He's somewhere smacked in the middle, crooning over 30-and-up soul and seductive urban beats [...] Some of the tracks feel a bit safe, as if it’s trying to chase after the overrated Charlie Wilson adult-R&B blueprint. But Bryson delivers the songs with such fervor and without any sign of vocal diminishing throughout the course.{{cite web |url=http://hifimagazine.net/blog/?os_album=peabo-bryson-stand-for-love|title=Peabo Bryson: Stand for Love |website=HiFi Magazine|accessdate=November 23, 2020|date=October 27, 2018|first=J. Matthew|last=Cobb}}

Track listing

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| title1 = All She Wants to Do Is Me

| writer1 = {{hlist|James Harris III|Terry Lewis|John Jackson|Peabo Bryson}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length1 = 4:58

| title2 = Love Like Yours and Mine

| writer2 = {{hlist|Harris|Lewis|Jackson|Bryson}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length2 = 3:40

| title3 = Looking for Sade

| writer3 = {{hlist|Harris|Lewis|Jackson|Bryson}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length3 = 4:44

| title4 = Stand for Love

| writer4 = {{hlist|Harris|Lewis|Linda Creed|Thom Bell}}

| extra4 = Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

| length4 = 4:10

| title5 = Goosebumps (Never Lie)

| note5 = featuring Gary Clark, Jr.

| writer5 = {{hlist|Harris|Lewis|Jackson|Bryson}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length5 = 3:29

| title6 = Exotic

| writer6 = {{hlist|Harris|Lewis|Jackson|Morry Sterns|Bryson|Shion Kanata}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length6 = 4:12

| title7 = Here for You

| writer7 = {{hlist|Harris|Lewis|Jackson|Sterns|Bryson|Kanata}}

| extra7 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length7 = 4:15

| title8 = Smile

| writer8 = {{hlist|Harris|Lewis|Sterns|Bryson|Kanata}}

| extra8 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length8 = 4:57

| title9 = Peabo's Classic Melodies Live from Los Angeles 2018

| note9 = featuring Chanté Moore

| writer9 = {{hlist|Bryson|Gerry Goffin|Michael Masser}}

| extra9 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length9 = 5:23

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{{Track listing

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| title10 = Possible (Still the One)

| writer10 = {{hlist|Harris|Lewis|Jackson|Bryson}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length10 = 3:25

| title11 = Sadness

| writer11 = {{hlist|Harris|Lewis|Jackson|Bryson}}

| extra11 = {{hlist|Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis|Jackson}}

| length11 = 4:37

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Sample credits

Personnel and credits

Musicians

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  • Peabo Bryson – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 8)
  • John Jackson – keyboards (1, 5), bass (1, 5), drum programming (1), instruments (2, 6–9), backing vocals (2), all other instruments (3), arrangements (7, 9)
  • Jimmy Jam – instruments (4), additional drum programming (6)
  • Terry Lewis – instruments (4)
  • Eric DuBose – guitar (1, 5)
  • Gary Clark Jr. – guitar (5)
  • David Crenshaw – percussion (1, 3, 5)
  • Masaru Nishiyama – orchestra arrangements and conductor (6, 8)
  • Huang Lijie – concertmaster (6, 8)
  • Asian Philharmonic Orchestra – orchestra (6, 8)
  • Lauren Evans – backing vocals (1, 3–9)
  • Leon Thomas III – backing vocals (4)
  • Chanté Moore – lead vocals (9)

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Production

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  • Jimmy Jam – executive producer, recording (4)
  • Terry Lewis – executive producer, recording
  • Satoshi Tanaka – executive producer
  • Michael T. Martin – co-producer
  • John Jackson – recording (1–3, 6–9)
  • Thom Kidd – recording (1, 5, 6, 9)
  • Nick Bassani – recording (4)
  • Christian Plata – mixing (1–3, 5–9)
  • Goetz Botzenhardt – mixing (1, 7, 8)
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing (4)
  • Matt Marrin – mixing (6, 9)
  • Gene Grimaldi – mastering
  • Jason Clark – package design
  • Marselle Washington – photography
  • Marco Imagery – photography

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Studios

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  • Recorded at Flyte Tyme Studios (Agoura Hills, California); Jackson's Lyric Studios (Birmingham, Alabama); Silent Sound Studios and Patchwerk Recording Studios (Atlanta, Georgia).
  • Mixed at Flyte Tyme Studios; MixStar Studios (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Soho Sound Kitchen (London, UK).
  • Mastered at Oasis Mastering (Burbank, California).

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Charts

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scope="row"| US Current Album Sales (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/peabo-bryson/chart-history/tcl/|magazine=Billboard|title=Brian McKnight > Album Sales|accessdate=November 23, 2020}}

| 38

{{album chart|BillboardIndependent|7|artist=Peabo Bryson|rowheader=true|accessdate=November 23, 2020|refname="BillboardIndependent"}}

References