Japanese limited version featuring a digipack.

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of early '80s albums from the late, great Soul/R&B vocalist: Absence Without Love and On & On. Both albums represent pure quality from the era with Absence Without Love featuring one of Soul music's signature tracks 'Buttercup' written by Stevie Wonder whilst the title track features Teena Marie. The follow-up album On & On features a duet with Vaneese Thomas. Expansion 2009

Reissue of Carl Anderson's outstanding 1985 album Protocol - including 3 bonus tracks. Patrick Henderson (of Doobie Brothers and Leon Russell fame) produced Protocol which contains the finest vocal performance of Carl Anderson's career -Can't Stop This Feeling, produced by Al McKay (EWF Guitarist and producer of The Temptations and Finis Henderson), along with the Gary Taylor written and produced Let's Talk. (Producers Note - Listen for the vocals of an uncredited Gwen Guthrie on the bonus remix of Let's Talk). These songs epitomized what made Protocol special.....HOT, FUNKY R&B tracks, structured with enough room to allow Carl to show his range, elasticity and superb vocal technique. An interesting footnote is the songwriting presence of one pre-superstar Michael Bolton - then writing some of the greatest Pop influenced R&B songs ever.

Protocol is essential Carl Anderson at his best. It gives you a glimpse of the future smooth jazz success that Carl would have in the early 90's on the GRP label both as a solo artist and with Nancy Wilson and The Rippingtons. It was was also the album prior to his greatest commercial success - The Gloria Loring duet Friends and Lovers. Carl Anderson, despite being commercially overshadowed by Freddie Jackson, El Debarge, Luther Vandross and their equally talented ilk in the 1980's, was one of the great male voices of the decades.

Japanese limited version featuring a digipack.