He is a third of arguably the most prolific and successful songwriting team ever, but as a recording artist, Lamont Dozier never really hit it big. This collection is a combination of two LPs--"Black Bach" (one of my ten best LPs of the 70's) and "Out Here On My Own"--an album known for the singles "Fish Ain't Bitin'" and "Trying to Hold On To My Woman."
Here we see not only a true master musician, but a poet who serves up a combo platter of funk ("Put Out My Fire") to a smidgen of C & W ("Let Me Start Tonight"), a side order of balladry ("Let Me Make Love To You"); "I Wanna Be With You"), and a dessert of spellbinding storytelling in "Rose."
Dozier is every bit a central architect of soul music as is James Brown, Willie Mitchell, Gamble and Huff and Motown's stable of geniuses.
For a clearer picture of Dozier's brilliance, I suggest listening to his self-titled CD "Lamont," 1980's "Working On You" and his late-70's CDs "Bittersweet" and "Peddlin' Music On The Side."