Brook Benton

• It's Just a Matter of Time: His Greatest Hits [Mercury, 1984] B+

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It's Just a Matter of Time: His Greatest Hits [Mercury, 1984]
Roughing his velvet voice with just the slightest hint of alluvial mud as Clyde Otis's strings swooped and punched, Benton was rock and roll's answer to Nat King Cole or black music's answer to Pat Boone. Either way he filled a need, and he wrote most of his own tunes, too. Though this selection from his 22 r&b hits (among them two unincluded number one Dinah Washington duets) is skimpier than there's any reason for, I'll take him over Lou Rawls anyday. B+