Dan Hill

Consisting of mainly commonplace singer/songwriter material, Dan Hill's Love in the Shadows proved to be one of his most uninspired albums. Only the title track garnered any attention, a melodious pop tune led by Hill's half-whispered voice. Other tracks from the album, such as "In Your Eyes" and "Don't Know Where It Comes From," resemble the same type of adult contemporary softness that Dan Fogelberg or James Taylor produce; flashbacks of lost loves, reminiscing about the innocence of youth, and the overt struggle with middle age. Nothing from Love in the Shadows matches the genuine tenderness of 1977's "Sometimes When We Touch" that gave him a number three single, or equals the romanticism of "Can't We Try," his duet with Vonda Sheppard in 1987. Hill's songwriting is short on inspiration and long on insipidness, pulled tediously by lackluster guitar/piano combinations. Now deleted, even the title track fails to appear on The Best of Dan Hill, which was released in the late 1990s. ~ Mike DeGagne, All Music Guide