A Donny Hathaway Collection
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A Donny Hathaway Collection
Unfortunately, Atlantic's A Donny Hathaway Collection, one of the few career retrospectives available (and basically the only one in print), isn't quite definitive; it presents a version of Hathaway's career inordinately focused on his commercially successful duets with Roberta Flack, and his slowest, most dirge-like solo recordings.- AllMusic
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AllMusic
. . . A Donny Hathaway Collection neglects far too much material from his two greatest solo albums, 1970s Everything Is Everything and 1973's Extension of a Man, to be considered the perfect first choice. It may simply be a matter of embellishing the myth of the tortured artist, but this doesn't present both sides of the Hathaway legend.
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PopMatters
February 20, 2003. His greatest compositions and songs are here, from beginning to end -- from "The Ghetto" to "For All We Know". Evidence of the perfect blend of his voice with Roberta Flack's on "Where Is The Love" (which earned them a Grammy in 1972) and "The Closer I Get to You" is confirmed. The man that Rolling Stone called a "major new force in soul music" after his death provided his most insightful performances on his solo ballads.
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SOUL TRACKS
Any one of his albums is worth obtaining. For newer fans, his posthumous compilation release, A Donny Hathaway Collection, is a wonderful overview of his best music.
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Midlife Mix Tape
The compilation, “A Donny Hathaway Collection” is my go-to recording when I need a dose of Donny. His catalog is much more extensive than just this collection, but it’s the one that I keep in rotation. He speaks of life, love, heartache, passion, pain, heartbreak, joy, happiness and regret. If one were to just hear, “This Christmas,” they might take him to be a joyful one-hit wonder, but he is so much more than that. He is an artist that wrote to release his soul and he unselfishly shared it with the rest of us.
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